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  r85450 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 08:35:53 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #7642: update to os.system() docs.
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  r85451 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 08:41:42 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #3865: add note about benchmarking with profilers, and move licensing stuff to bottom of document.
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  r85452 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 08:43:22 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #10046: small correction to atexit docs.
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  r85453 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 08:46:08 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #6825: small correction to split() docs.
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  r85454 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 08:48:47 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Mention 2to3.
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  r85455 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 08:59:45 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #1710703: write zipfile structures also in the case of closing a new, but empty, archive.
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  r85460 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 09:24:28 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9964: fix running test_import under -O or -OO.
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  r85461 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 09:29:08 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9964: fix lib2to3 fixer fix_operator when running under -OO.
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  r85462 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 09:32:52 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9964: fix running test_xml_etree under -OO.
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  r85463 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 09:34:56 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  Better check for "any optimize option given".
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  r85464 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 09:42:27 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9964: fix running test_compileall under -O and -OO.
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  r85465 | georg.brandl | 2010-10-14 10:08:56 +0200 (Do, 14 Okt 2010) | 1 line

  #9964: fix running test_cmd_line_script under -O and -OO.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e305fc3..b77b789 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@
 
 - Issue #10459: Update CJK character names to Unicode 5.1.
 
+- Issue #1710703: Write structures for an empty ZIP archive when a ZipFile is
+  created in modes 'a' or 'w' and then closed without adding any files. Raise
+  BadZipfile (rather than IOError) when opening small non-ZIP files.
+
 - Issue #4493: urllib.request adds '/' in front of path components which does not
   start with '/. Common behavior exhibited by browsers and other clients.