- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.

2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9dad54d..519fb5e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -109,6 +109,8 @@ Build
 
 - Issue #10094: Use versioned .so files on GNU/kfreeBSD and the GNU Hurd.
 
+- Accept Oracle Berkeley DB 5.0 and 5.1 as backend for the dbm extension.
+
 
 What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
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diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 861f9ef..549eccb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -729,7 +729,7 @@ class PyBuildExt(build_ext):
         # a release.  Most open source OSes come with one or more
         # versions of BerkeleyDB already installed.
 
-        max_db_ver = (4, 8)
+        max_db_ver = (5, 1)
         min_db_ver = (3, 3)
         db_setup_debug = False   # verbose debug prints from this script?