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 Library
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+- Issue #12065: connect_ex() on an SSL socket now returns the original errno
+  when the socket's timeout expires (it used to return None).
+
 - Issue #8809: The SMTP_SSL constructor and SMTP.starttls() now support
   passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
   Patch by Kasun Herath.