From: Christian Heimes <christian@python.org>
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2022 19:00:58 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: gh-89313: Add hashlib.file_digest to whatsnew 3.11 (GH-95965)
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gh-89313: Add hashlib.file_digest to whatsnew 3.11 (GH-95965)



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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
index 7be9a501f531..f1f023038abe 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
@@ -609,6 +609,10 @@ hashlib
   OpenSSL support.
   (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`47098`.)
 
+* Add :func:`hashlib.file_digest`, a helper function for efficient hashing
+  of files or file-like objects.
+  (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :gh:`89313`.)
+
 IDLE and idlelib
 ----------------