Add NEWS and whatsnew entries for the packaging module
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index db9bd00..e277eb9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@
- Issue #11320: fix bogus memory management in Modules/getpath.c, leading to
a possible crash when calling Py_SetPath().
-- _ast.__version__ is now a Mercurial integer and hex revision.
+- _ast.__version__ is now a Mercurial hex revision.
- Issue #11432: A bug was introduced in subprocess.Popen on posix systems with
3.2.0 where the stdout or stderr file descriptor being the same as the stdin
@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@
- Issue #12124: zipimport doesn't keep a reference to zlib.decompress() anymore
to be able to unload the module.
+- Add the packaging module, an improved fork of distutils (also known as
+ distutils2).
+
- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).