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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2021 16:22:24 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: bpo-44219: Mention GH-28250 is a deadlock bugfix (GH-28261) (GH-28275)
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bpo-44219: Mention GH-28250 is a deadlock bugfix (GH-28261) (GH-28275)

(cherry picked from commit 296b7100705ef52aece3378b0ae42c33a58526e1)

Co-authored-by: Łukasz Langa <lukasz@langa.pl>
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-09-09-10-32-33.bpo-44219.WiYyjz.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-09-09-10-32-33.bpo-44219.WiYyjz.rst
index 12915ffe3c07..2abd81673663 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-09-09-10-32-33.bpo-44219.WiYyjz.rst	
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core and Builtins/2021-09-09-10-32-33.bpo-44219.WiYyjz.rst	
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 Release the GIL while performing ``isatty`` system calls on arbitrary file
 descriptors. In particular, this affects :func:`os.isatty`,
 :func:`os.device_encoding` and :class:`io.TextIOWrapper`. By extension,
-:func:`io.open` in text mode is also affected.
+:func:`io.open` in text mode is also affected. This change solves
+a deadlock in :func:`os.isatty`. Patch by Vincent Michel in :issue:`44219`.