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  r68425 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-08 20:56:32 -0600 (Thu, 08 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  fix markup
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  r68461 | kristjan.jonsson | 2009-01-09 15:35:16 -0600 (Fri, 09 Jan 2009) | 2 lines

  Issue 4293:  Make Py_AddPendingCall() thread safe
  Add test cases and documentation
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  r68498 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-01-10 13:08:49 -0600 (Sat, 10 Jan 2009) | 1 line

  fix encoding
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
index 24d3a86..b76829c 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
@@ -60,6 +60,11 @@ No release schedule has been decided yet for 2.7.
 .. ========================================================================
 
 
+Kristján Valur Jónsson, issue 4293
+Py_AddPendingCall is now thread safe.  This allows any worker thread
+to submit notifications to the python main thread.  This is particularly
+useful for asynchronous IO operations.
+
 
 Other Language Changes
 ======================
@@ -121,11 +126,10 @@ changes, or look through the Subversion logs for all the details.
   (Contributed by Gregory P. Smith.)
 
 * It is not mandatory anymore to store clear text passwords in the
-  :file:`.pypirc` file when registering and uploading packages to PyPI. As
-  long as the username is present in that file, the :mod:`distutils` package
-  will prompt for the password if not present.
-  (Added by tarek, with the initial contribution of Nathan Van Gheem;
-   :issue:`4394`.)
+  :file:`.pypirc` file when registering and uploading packages to PyPI. As long
+  as the username is present in that file, the :mod:`distutils` package will
+  prompt for the password if not present.  (Added by tarek, with the initial
+  contribution of Nathan Van Gheem; :issue:`4394`.)
 
 .. ======================================================================
 .. whole new modules get described in subsections here