Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
`thread.start_new_thread()`.
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+- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
+ than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
+ `thread.start_new_thread()`.
+
- Issue #7264: Fix a possible deadlock when deallocating thread-local objects
which are part of a reference cycle.