Issue #8809: The SMTP_SSL constructor and SMTP.starttls() now support
passing a `context` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
Patch by Kasun Herath.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ae98b9b..901250f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -153,6 +153,10 @@
Library
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+- Issue #8809: The SMTP_SSL constructor and SMTP.starttls() now support
+ passing a ``context`` argument pointing to an ssl.SSLContext instance.
+ Patch by Kasun Herath.
+
- Issue #11088: don't crash when using F5 to run a script in IDLE on MacOSX
with Tk 8.5.