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 Library
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+- Issue #11959: SMTPServer and SMTPChannel now take an optional map, use of
+  which avoids affecting global state.
+
 - Issue #18109: os.uname() now decodes fields from the locale encoding, and
   socket.gethostname() now decodes the hostname from the locale encoding,
   instead of using the UTF-8 encoding in strict mode.