#8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+.
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 Simon Mathieu
 Laura Matson
 Graham Matthews
+Martin Matusiak
 Dieter Maurer
 Daniel May
 Madison May
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+- Issue #8964: fix platform._sys_version to handle IronPython 2.6+.
+  Patch by Martin Matusiak.
+
 - Issue #16038: CVE-2013-1752: ftplib: Limit amount of data read by
   limiting the call to readline().  Original patch by Michał
   Jastrzębski and Giampaolo Rodola.