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@@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #1174606: Calling read() without arguments of an unbounded file
+  (typically /dev/zero under Unix) could crash the interpreter.
+
 - The max_buffer_size arguments of io.BufferedWriter, io.BufferedRWPair, and
   io.BufferedRandom have been deprecated for removal in Python 3.2.