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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #6713: Improve performance of integer -> string conversions.
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 - Issue #1590864: Fix potential deadlock when mixing threads and fork().
 
 - Issue #6844: Do not emit DeprecationWarnings when accessing a "message"