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 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #26146: Add a new kind of AST node: ``ast.Constant``. It can be used
+  by external AST optimizers, but the compiler does not emit directly such
+  node.
+
 - Issue #18018: Import raises ImportError instead of SystemError if a relative
   import is attempted without a known parent package.