Forgot to mention the SF number, and that Bob Ippolito provided the patch.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 70e37d7..c26b09b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -473,7 +473,8 @@
- New public functions Py_IncRef() and Py_DecRef(), exposing the
functionality of the Py_XINCREF() and Py_XDECREF macros. Useful for
- runtime dynamic embedding of Python.
+ runtime dynamic embedding of Python. See patch #938302, by Bob
+ Ippolito.
- Added a new macro, PySequence_Fast_ITEMS, which retrieves a fast sequence's
underlying array of PyObject pointers. Useful for high speed looping.