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 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #4991: Passing invalid file descriptors to io.FileIO now raises an
+  OSError.
+
 - Issue #4807: Port the _winreg module to Windows CE.
 
 - Issue #4935: The overflow checking code in the expandtabs() method common