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diff --git a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst index 955afb8..36f386c 100644 --- a/Doc/library/hashlib.rst +++ b/Doc/library/hashlib.rst @@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ A hash object has the following methods: concatenation of all the arguments: ``m.update(a); m.update(b)`` is equivalent to ``m.update(a+b)``. + .. versionchanged:: 2.7 + + The Python GIL is released to allow other threads to run while + hash updates on data larger than 2048 bytes is taking place when + using hash algorithms supplied by OpenSSL. + .. method:: hash.digest() |