Also deprecated the old Tester class, which is no longer used by anything
except internal tests.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7550076..5759f35 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,11 +12,11 @@
Core and builtins
-----------------
-Subclasses of string can no longer be interned. The semantics of
-interning were not clear here -- a subclass could be mutable, for
-example -- and had bugs. Explicitly interning a subclass of string
-via intern() will raise a TypeError. Internal operations that attempt
-to intern a string subclass will have no effect.
+- Subclasses of string can no longer be interned. The semantics of
+ interning were not clear here -- a subclass could be mutable, for
+ example -- and had bugs. Explicitly interning a subclass of string
+ via intern() will raise a TypeError. Internal operations that attempt
+ to intern a string subclass will have no effect.
Extension modules
-----------------
@@ -24,6 +24,21 @@
Library
-------
+- doctest refactoring continued. See the docs for details. As part of
+ this effort, some old and little- (never?) used features are now
+ deprecated: the Tester class, the module is_private() function, and the
+ isprivate argument to testmod(). The Tester class supplied a feeble
+ "by hand" way to combine multiple doctests, if you knew exactly what
+ you were doing. The newer doctest features for unittest integration
+ already did a better job of that, are stronger now than ever, and the
+ new DocTestRunner class is a saner foundation if you want to do it by
+ hand. The "private name" filtering gimmick was a mistake from the
+ start, and testmod() changed long ago to ignore it by default. If
+ you want to filter out tests, the new DocTestFinder class can be used
+ to return a list of all doctests, and you can filter that list by
+ any computable criteria before passing it to a DocTestRunner instance.
+
+
Tools/Demos
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