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@@ -280,6 +280,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #1285086: Get rid of the refcounting hack and speed up
+  urllib.parse.unquote() and urllib.parse.unquote_to_bytes().
+
 - Issue #17099: Have importlib.find_loader() raise ValueError when __loader__
   is not set, harmonizing with what happens when the attribute is set to None.