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Add notes to NEWS for other work today.
authorPhillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com>
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:21:31 +0000 (01:21 +0000)
committerPhillip J. Eby <pje@telecommunity.com>
Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:21:31 +0000 (01:21 +0000)
Misc/NEWS

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--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ Core and builtins
   sys.setdlopenflags() now works correctly on these systems. (SF patch 
   #1454844)
 
+- Patch #1463867: enhanced garbage collection to allow cleanup of cycles
+  involving generators that have paused outside of any ``try`` or ``with``
+  blocks.  (In 2.5a1, a paused generator that was part of a reference
+  cycle could not be garbage collected, regardless of whether it was
+  paused in a ``try`` or ``with`` block.)
 
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
@@ -52,6 +57,11 @@ C API
 Tests
 -----
 
+- The test_contextlib test in 2.5a1 wasn't actually run unless you ran
+  it separately and by hand.  It also wasn't cleaning up its changes to
+  the current Decimal context.
+
+
 Documentation
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