remove __version__s dependent on subversion keyword expansion (closes #12221)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b3d21f8..63a9ded 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -184,6 +184,10 @@
Library
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+- Issue #12221: Remove __version__ attributes from pyexpat, pickle, tarfile,
+ pydoc, tkinter, and xml.parsers.expat. This were useless version constants
+ left over from the Mercurial transition
+
- Issue #12085: Fix an attribute error in subprocess.Popen destructor if the
constructor has failed, e.g. because of an undeclared keyword argument. Patch
written by Oleg Oshmyan.