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  r62323 | brett.cannon | 2008-04-13 10:09:43 -0700 (Sun, 13 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Add an explicit check for output in a test to try to diagnose a failure on
  Windows.
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  r62324 | brett.cannon | 2008-04-13 10:41:31 -0700 (Sun, 13 Apr 2008) | 3 lines

  Fix spliting on colons on Windows machines with a file path by limiting the
  number of splits.
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  r62329 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-13 13:35:56 -0700 (Sun, 13 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  #2627 Let it be known what pgen generates
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  r62330 | benjamin.peterson | 2008-04-13 13:40:03 -0700 (Sun, 13 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Added an ignore file for Bazaar #2510
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  r62331 | georg.brandl | 2008-04-13 13:50:29 -0700 (Sun, 13 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Improve -X error message.
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  r62334 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-13 15:39:12 -0700 (Sun, 13 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Add example
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  r62340 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-14 12:55:40 -0700 (Mon, 14 Apr 2008) | 2 lines

  Update project files for all Windows supported compilers
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  r62341 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2008-04-14 13:07:48 -0700 (Mon, 14 Apr 2008) | 6 lines

  Correct a refleak found by "regrtest.py -R:: test_structmembers"

  Some other minor updates in _warnings.c:
  - make a function static
  - rename a shadowing local variable
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  r62347 | andrew.kuchling | 2008-04-14 19:24:15 -0700 (Mon, 14 Apr 2008) | 1 line

  Various items; begin writing the SSL section
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
index cc20423..fa51221 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst
@@ -736,7 +736,13 @@ There's also a ``__future__`` import that causes all string literals
 to become Unicode strings.  This means that ``\u`` escape sequences 
 can be used to include Unicode characters.
 
-XXX give example
+    from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+    s = ('\u751f\u3080\u304e\u3000\u751f\u3054'
+         '\u3081\u3000\u751f\u305f\u307e\u3054')
+
+    print len(s)               # 12 Unicode characters
+
 
 .. seealso::
 
@@ -819,7 +825,8 @@ their own implementations of buffering and text I/O.
 
    :pep:`3116` - New I/O
       PEP written by Daniel Stutzbach, Mike Verdone, and Guido van Rossum.
-      XXX code written by who?
+      Code by Guido van Rossum, Georg Brandl, Walter Doerwald,
+      Jeremy Hylton, Martin von Loewis, Tony Lownds, and others.
 
 .. ======================================================================
 
@@ -1090,8 +1097,6 @@ This is equivalent to::
 
   A = foo(bar(A))
 
-XXX need to find a good motivating example.    
-
 .. seealso::
 
    :pep:`3129` - Class Decorators
@@ -1848,6 +1853,10 @@ complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the details.
   environments.  TIPC addresses are 4- or 5-tuples.
   (Contributed by Alberto Bertogli; :issue:`1646`.)
 
+  A new function, :func:`create_connection`, takes an address 
+  and connects to it using an optional timeout value, returning 
+  the connected socket object.
+
 * The base classes in the :mod:`SocketServer` module now support
   calling a :meth:`handle_timeout` method after a span of inactivity 
   specified by the server's :attr:`timeout` attribute.  (Contributed 
@@ -2036,15 +2045,21 @@ Improved SSL Support
 --------------------------------------------------
 
 Bill Janssen made extensive improvements to Python 2.6's support for
-SSL.
-
-XXX use ssl.sslsocket - subclass of socket.socket.
+the Secure Sockets Layer by adding a new module, :mod:`ssl`, on top of
+the `OpenSSL <http://www.openssl.org/>`__ library.  This new module
+provides more control over the protocol negotiated, the X.509
+certificates used, and has better support for writing SSL servers (as
+opposed to clients) in Python.  The existing SSL support in the
+:mod:`socket` module hasn't been removed and continues to work,
+though it will be removed in Python 3.0.
+
+To use the new module, first you must create a TCP connection in the
+usual way and then pass it to the :func:`ssl.wrap_socket` function.
+XXX describe parameters.
 
 XXX Can specify if certificate is required, and obtain certificate info
 by calling getpeercert method.
 
-XXX sslwrap() behaves like socket.ssl
-
 XXX Certain features require the OpenSSL package to be installed, notably
   the 'openssl' binary.