Merged changes from 22a4 branch.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f38d353..1d0e12c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
What's New in Python 2.2a4?
+Release date: 28-Sep-2001
===========================
Type/class unification and new-style classes
@@ -69,6 +70,8 @@
a str sublass type, s[:] returned s as-is. Now it returns a str
with the same value as s.
+- Provisional support for pickling new-style objects has been added.
+
Core
- file.writelines() now accepts any iterable object producing strings.
@@ -191,6 +194,7 @@
What's New in Python 2.2a3?
+Release Date: 07-Sep-2001
===========================
Core
@@ -379,6 +383,7 @@
What's New in Python 2.2a2?
+Release Date: 22-Aug-2001
===========================
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