From: Phil Jones <philip.graham.jones@googlemail.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 17:46:13 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Announce the change in the CancelledError inheritance (GH-16730)
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Announce the change in the CancelledError inheritance (GH-16730)

This is a fairly noticeable change that requires adjustments in
existing asyncio code. It should therefore be announced.
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index 4cab2f7af1..9bf028deaa 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -1659,6 +1659,10 @@ Changes in the Python API
   environment variable and does not use :envvar:`HOME`, which is not normally
   set for regular user accounts.
 
+* The Exception :class:`asyncio.CancelledError` now inherits from
+  :class:`BaseException` rather than a :class:`Exception`.
+  (Contributed by Yury Selivanov in :issue:`13528`.)
+
 .. _bpo-36085-whatsnew:
 
 * DLL dependencies for extension modules and DLLs loaded with :mod:`ctypes` on