From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 16:35:16 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Mention SMTP additions and hmac module.
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.1c1~1805
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=d8185ca43eedc9262ac7744f4c48dc2313c5d1fb;p=python

Mention SMTP additions and hmac module.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1265ee986e..6872b73e19 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,12 @@ Library
 - operator.indexOf() (PySequence_Index() in the C API) now works with any
   iterable object.
 
+- The smtplib module now supports various authentication and security
+  features of the SMTP protocol through the new login() and starttls()
+  methods.
+
+- A new hmac module implementing keyed hashing for message authentication.
+
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