NEWS entry for:

Add an optional 'offset' parameter to byref, defaulting to zero.

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@@ -77,6 +77,10 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
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+- The ctypes.byref function now takes an optional second parameter
+  which allows to specify an offset in bytes for the constructed
+  pointer-like object.
+
 - Added the ast module.
 
 - Factored out the indentation cleaning from inspect.getdoc() into