ten-fold improvement in speed makes the module suitable for handling
high volumes of data.
+\item The \module{imaplib} module now supports IMAP's THREAD command.
+(Contributed by Yves Dionne.)
+
+\item A new \function{getsid()} function was added to the
+\module{posix} module that underlies the \module{os} module.
+(Contributed by J. Raynor.)
+
\item The \module{random} module has a new method called \method{getrandbits(N)}
which returns an N-bit long integer. This method supports the existing
\method{randrange()} method, making it possible to efficiently generate