SF patch 1044089: New C API function PyEval_ThreadsInitialized(), by Nick
Coghlan, for determining whether PyEval_InitThreads() has been called.
Also purged the undocumented+unused _PyThread_Started int.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 87c6f37..d547204 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -136,6 +136,11 @@
C API
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+- SF patch 1044089: New function ``PyEval_ThreadsInitialized()`` returns
+ non-zero if PyEval_InitThreads() has been called.
+
+- The undocumented and unused extern int ``_PyThread_Started`` was removed.
+
- The C API calls ``PyInterpreterState_New()`` and ``PyThreadState_New()``
are two of the very few advertised as being safe to call without holding
the GIL. However, this wasn't true in a debug build, as bug 1041645