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 Library
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+- Issue #24838: tarfile's ustar and gnu formats now correctly calculate name
+  and link field limits for multibyte character encodings like utf-8.
+
 - Issue #26657: Fix directory traversal vulnerability with http.server on
   Windows.  This fixes a regression that was introduced in 3.3.4rc1 and
   3.4.0rc1.  Based on patch by Philipp Hagemeister.