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  r67654 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-07 16:42:09 -0600 (Sun, 07 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4457: rewrite __import__() documentation.
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  r67676 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-08 20:03:03 -0600 (Mon, 08 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  specify how things are copied
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  r67677 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-08 20:05:11 -0600 (Mon, 08 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  revert unrelated change to installer script
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  r67681 | jeremy.hylton | 2008-12-09 15:03:10 -0600 (Tue, 09 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Add simple unittests for Request
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  r67692 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-10 18:03:42 -0600 (Wed, 10 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #1030250: correctly pass the dry_run option to the mkpath() function.
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  r67725 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-12 22:02:20 -0600 (Fri, 12 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix incorrect example
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  r67746 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-12-13 17:12:30 -0600 (Sat, 13 Dec 2008) | 3 lines

  Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions when given an unicode string.
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  r67748 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-13 19:46:11 -0600 (Sat, 13 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  remove has_key usage
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  r67761 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-14 11:26:04 -0600 (Sun, 14 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix missing bracket
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  r67784 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:33:58 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4446: document "platforms" argument for setup().
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  r67785 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:36:11 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4611: fix typo.
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  r67787 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 02:58:59 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4578: fix has_key() usage in compiler package.
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  r67788 | georg.brandl | 2008-12-15 03:07:39 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  #4568: remove limitation in varargs callback example.
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  r67802 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-15 16:29:14 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  #3632: the "pyo" macro from gdbinit can now run when the GIL is released.

  Patch by haypo.
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  r67832 | antoine.pitrou | 2008-12-17 16:46:54 -0600 (Wed, 17 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reports invalid elapsed times.
  Patch by Neil Schemenauer, very slightly modified.
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  r67848 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-18 20:28:56 -0600 (Thu, 18 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  fix typo
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  r67849 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-18 20:31:35 -0600 (Thu, 18 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  _call_method -> _callmethod and _get_value to _getvalue
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  r67859 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-12-19 16:56:48 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 4 lines

  #4700: crtlicense.txt is displayed by the license() command and should be kept ascii-only.

  Will port to 3.0
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  r67862 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:48:02 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  copy sentence from docstring
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  r67863 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:51:26 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  add headings
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  r67864 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-19 20:57:19 -0600 (Fri, 19 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  beef up docstring
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  r67880 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 16:49:24 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  remove redundant sentence
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  r67882 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 16:59:49 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  add some recent releases to the list
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  r67885 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 17:48:54 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  silence annoying DeprecationWarning
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  r67889 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 19:04:32 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  sphinx.web is long gone
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  r67890 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 19:12:26 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  update readme
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  r67891 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 19:14:47 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 1 line

  there are way too many places which need to have the current version added
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  r67892 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-20 19:29:32 -0600 (Sat, 20 Dec 2008) | 9 lines

  Merged revisions 67809 via svnmerge from
  svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/sandbox/trunk/2to3/lib2to3

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    r67809 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-12-15 21:54:45 -0600 (Mon, 15 Dec 2008) | 1 line

    fix logic error
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  r67895 | neal.norwitz | 2008-12-21 08:28:32 -0600 (Sun, 21 Dec 2008) | 2 lines

  Add Tarek for work on distutils.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 43f5ce7..4eba4f6 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,10 @@
 - Issue #4597: Fixed several opcodes that weren't always propagating
   exceptions.
 
+- Issue #2467: gc.DEBUG_STATS reported invalid elapsed times. Also, always
+  print elapsed times, not only when some objects are uncollectable /
+  unreachable. Original patch by Neil Schemenauer.
+
 - Issue #4589: Fixed exception handling when the __exit__ function of a
   context manager returns a value that cannot be converted to a bool.
 
@@ -114,10 +118,21 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #4163: Use unicode-friendly word splitting in the textwrap functions
+  when given an unicode string.
+
+- Issue #4616: TarFile.utime(): Restore directory times on Windows.
+
 - Issue #4084: Fix max, min, max_mag and min_mag Decimal methods to
   give correct results in the case where one argument is a quiet NaN
   and the other is a finite number that requires rounding.
 
+- Issue #1030250: Distutils created directories even when run with the
+  --dry-run option.
+
+- Issue #4483: _dbm module now builds on systems with gdbm & gdbm_compat
+  libs.
+
 - Issue #4529: fix the parser module's validation of try-except-finally
   statements.
 
@@ -177,6 +192,9 @@
 C-API
 -----
 
+- Issue #3632: from the gdb debugger, the 'pyo' macro can now be called when
+  the GIL is released, or owned by another thread.
+
 - Issue #4122: On Windows, fix a compilation error when using the
   Py_UNICODE_ISSPACE macro in an extension module.