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  r87014 | senthil.kumaran | 2010-12-04 17:44:30 +0800 (Sat, 04 Dec 2010) | 3 lines

  Add the NEWS entry for issue7904
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@@ -1428,6 +1428,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
+  RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
+  authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
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 - Issue #1555570: email no longer inserts extra blank lines when a \r\n
   combo crosses an 8192 byte boundary.