The malloc rearrangement was actually already in 1.6.

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0b7102b744df2c0ba7baa67268421400b76755cc..5a30b7f46fbea00b69ce8663f1be768513f3a32f 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -291,9 +291,6 @@ header files were removed, in an attempt to create a more rational set
 of header files.  (Few of these ever need to be included explicitly;
 they are all included by Python.h.)
 
-Vladimir Marangozov redesigned more rational APIs for allocating
-memory.  See pymem.h.
-
 Trent Mick ensured portability to 64-bit platforms, under both Linux
 and Win64, especially for the new Intel Itanium processor.