NEWS items from 2.6 don't need to be merged to 3.0.
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000-checkins/2008-August/004301.html
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0e2adb0..ae95abf 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -30,12 +30,6 @@
Library
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-- Issue #3575: Incremental decoder's decode function now takes bytearray
- by using 's*' instead of 't#'.
-
-- Issue #2222: Fixed reference leak when occured os.rename()
- fails unicode conversion on 2nd parameter. (windows only)
-
- Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
thread-safe.