Core and Builtins
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+ - Issue #23321: Fixed a crash in str.decode() when error handler returned
+ replacment string longer than mailformed input data.
+
+- Issue #22286: The "backslashreplace" error handlers now works with
+ decoding and translating.
+
+- Issue #23253: Delay-load ShellExecute[AW] in os.startfile for reduced
+ startup overhead on Windows.
+
+- Issue #22038: pyatomic.h now uses stdatomic.h or GCC built-in functions for
+ atomic memory access if available. Patch written by Vitor de Lima and Gustavo
+ Temple.
+
+- Issue #20284: %-interpolation (aka printf) formatting added for bytes and
+ bytearray.
+
- Issue #23048: Fix jumping out of an infinite while loop in the pdb.
- Issue #20335: bytes constructor now raises TypeError when encoding or errors