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+The logging.getLogger() API now returns the root logger when passed the name
+'root', whereas previously it returned a non-root logger named 'root'. This
+could affect cases where user code explicitly wants a non-root logger named
+'root', or instantiates a logger using logging.getLogger(__name__) in some
+top-level module called 'root.py'.