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Add NEWS entry about bug #1076985.

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@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ Library
   extended or overridden by subclasses.  Formerly, the subclassed method would
   be ignored by the rest of the module.  (Bug #1078905).
 
+- Bug #1076985: ``codecs.StreamReader.readline()`` now calls ``read()`` only
+  once when a size argument is given. This prevents a buffer overflow in the
+  tokenizer with very long source lines.
+
 
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