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  r73995 | vinay.sajip | 2009-07-13 07:21:05 -0400 (Mon, 13 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
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  r74002 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-07-13 16:23:49 -0400 (Mon, 13 Jul 2009) | 6 lines

  Use a new global DEV_NULL instead of hard-coding /dev/null into the system
  command helper functions.

  See #6479 for some motivation.
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  r74005 | marc-andre.lemburg | 2009-07-13 17:28:33 -0400 (Mon, 13 Jul 2009) | 6 lines

  Use a different VER command output parser to address the localization
  issues mentioned in #3410.

  Prepare for Windows 7 (still commented out).
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  r74007 | michael.foord | 2009-07-14 13:58:12 -0400 (Tue, 14 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Move TestRunner initialisation into unittest.TestProgram.runTests. Fixes issue 6418.
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  r74008 | benjamin.peterson | 2009-07-14 20:46:42 -0400 (Tue, 14 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  update year
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  r74011 | ezio.melotti | 2009-07-15 13:07:04 -0400 (Wed, 15 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  methods' names pep8ification
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  r74019 | amaury.forgeotdarc | 2009-07-15 17:29:27 -0400 (Wed, 15 Jul 2009) | 2 lines

  #6076 Add a title to the IDLE Preferences window.
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  r74020 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-16 03:18:07 -0400 (Thu, 16 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #5910: fix kqueue for calls with more than one event.
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  r74021 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-16 03:33:04 -0400 (Thu, 16 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6486: start with built in functions rather than "built in objects".
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  r74022 | georg.brandl | 2009-07-16 03:38:35 -0400 (Thu, 16 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  #6481: fix typo in os.system() replacement.
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  r74023 | jesse.noller | 2009-07-16 10:23:04 -0400 (Thu, 16 Jul 2009) | 1 line

  Issue 6433: multiprocessing.pool.map hangs on empty list
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diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 0fa88ed..179a279 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@ Walter Dörwald
 Hans Eckardt
 Grant Edwards
 John Ehresman
+Eric Eisner
 Andrew Eland
 Lance Ellinghaus
 David Ely
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index eed368f..2b15812 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -908,6 +908,13 @@ Library
   It's `distutils.util.get_compiler_versions`. Added deprecation warnings
   for the obsolete get_versions() functions.
 
+- Issue #6433: fixed issues with multiprocessing.pool.map hanging on empty list
+
+- Issue #6314: logging: Extra checks on the "level" argument in more places.
+
+- Issue #2622: Fixed an ImportError when importing email.messsage from a
+  standalone application built with py2exe or py2app.
+
 - Issue #6459: distutils.command.build_ext.get_export_symbols now uses the
   "PyInit" prefix, rather than "init".
 
@@ -920,6 +927,10 @@ Library
 
 - Issue #6403: Fixed package path usage in build_ext.
 
+- Issues #5155, 5313, 5331: multiprocessing.Process._bootstrap was
+  unconditionally calling "os.close(sys.stdin.fileno())" resulting in file
+  descriptor errors
+
 - Issue #6365: Distutils build_ext inplace mode was copying the compiled
   extension in a subdirectory if the extension name had dots.