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@@@ -268,12 -268,10 +268,16 @@@ Core and Builtin
  Library
  -------
  
+ - Issue #10946: The distutils commands bdist_dumb, bdist_wininst and bdist_msi
+   now respect a --skip-build option given to bdist.  The packaging commands
+   were fixed too.
+ 
 +- 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.