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  r80618 | lars.gustaebel | 2010-04-29 17:37:02 +0200 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 10 lines

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    r80616 | lars.gustaebel | 2010-04-29 17:23:38 +0200 (Thu, 29 Apr 2010) | 4 lines

    Issue #8464: tarfile.open(name, mode="w|") no longer creates
    files with execute permissions set.
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 Library
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+- Issue #8464: tarfile no longer creates files with execute permissions set
+  when mode="w|" is used.
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 - Issue #7834: Fix connect() of Bluetooth L2CAP sockets with recent versions
   of the Linux kernel.  Patch by Yaniv Aknin.