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++- Issue #12847: Fix a crash with negative PUT and LONG_BINPUT arguments in
++ the C pickle implementation.
++
+- Issue #11564: Avoid crashes when trying to pickle huge objects or containers
+ (more than 2**31 items). Instead, in most cases, an OverflowError is raised.
+
+- Issue #12287: Fix a stack corruption in ossaudiodev module when the FD is
+ greater than FD_SETSIZE.
+
+- Issue #12839: Fix crash in zlib module due to version mismatch.
+ Fix by Richard M. Tew.
+
+- Issue #9923: The mailcap module now correctly uses the platform path
+ separator for the MAILCAP environment variable on non-POSIX platforms.
+
+- Issue #12835: Follow up to #6560 that unconditionally prevents use of the
+ unencrypted sendmsg/recvmsg APIs on SSL wrapped sockets. Patch by David
+ Watson.
+
+- Issue #12803: SSLContext.load_cert_chain() now accepts a password argument
+ to be used if the private key is encrypted. Patch by Adam Simpkins.
+
+- Issue #11657: Fix sending file descriptors over 255 over a multiprocessing
+ Pipe.
+
+- Issue #12811: tabnanny.check() now promptly closes checked files. Patch by
+ Anthony Briggs.
+
+- Issue #6560: The sendmsg/recvmsg API is now exposed by the socket module
+ when provided by the underlying platform, supporting processing of
+ ancillary data in pure Python code. Patch by David Watson and Heiko Wundram.
+
+- Issue #12326: On Linux, sys.platform doesn't contain the major version
+ anymore. It is now always 'linux', instead of 'linux2' or 'linux3' depending
+ on the Linux version used to build Python.
+
+- Issue #12213: Fix a buffering bug with interleaved reads and writes that
+ could appear on BufferedRandom streams.
+
+- Issue #12778: Reduce memory consumption when JSON-encoding a large
+ container of many small objects.
+
+- Issue #12650: Fix a race condition where a subprocess.Popen could leak
+ resources (FD/zombie) when killed at the wrong time.
+
+- Issue #12744: Fix inefficient representation of integers between 2**31 and
+ 2**63 on systems with a 64-bit C "long".
+
+- Issue #12646: Add an 'eof' attribute to zlib.Decompress, to make it easier to
+ detect truncated input streams.
+
- Issue #11513: Fix exception handling ``tarfile.TarFile.gzopen()`` when
the file cannot be opened.