From: Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 00:30:00 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: News about the repaired memory leak in defaultdict.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5b3~115
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9cab593c0e640dbeaeb774726b964cf2690cbf7a;p=python

News about the repaired memory leak in defaultdict.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 51de474c01..294b159f84 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -106,6 +106,9 @@ Library
 Extension Modules
 -----------------
 
+- The ``__reduce__()`` method of the new ``collections.defaultdict`` had
+  a memory leak, affecting pickles and deep copies.
+
 - Bug #1471938: Fix curses module build problem on Solaris 8; patch by
   Paul Eggert.