(Contributed by Fabian Kreutz.)
+\item The \module{gopherlib} module has been removed.
+
\item New function in the \module{heapq} module:
\function{merge(iter1, iter2, ...)}
takes any number of iterables that return data
(Contributed by Raymond Hettinger.)
+\item The \module{macfs} module has been removed. This in turn
+required the \function{macostools.touched()} function to be removed
+because it depended on the \module{macfs} module.
+
% Patch #1490190
\item New functions in the \module{posix} module: \function{chflags()}
and \function{lchflags()} are wrappers for the corresponding system
\constant{UF_APPEND} to indicate that data can only be appended to the
file. (Contributed by M. Levinson.)
+\item The \module{rgbimg} module has been removed.
+
\item The \module{smtplib} module now supports SMTP over
SSL thanks to the addition of the \class{SMTP_SSL} class.
This class supports an interface identical to the existing \class{SMTP}