Fix for issue 5259: ASCII encode the username and password before passing
it to encode_base64, which requires bytes in py3k. Fix by Musashi Tamura,
tests by Marcin Bachry.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1380b29..a736ad8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@
Library
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+- Issue #5259: smtplib plain auth login no longer gives a traceback. Fix
+ by Musashi Tamura, tests by Marcin Bachry.
+
- Issue #1983: Fix functions taking or returning a process identifier to use
the dedicated C type ``pid_t`` instead of a C ``int``. Some platforms have
a process identifier type wider than the standard C integer type.