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@@ -46,6 +46,9 @@ Extension modules
 Library
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+- encodings.bz2_codec was added for access to bz2 compression
+  using "a long string".encode('bz2')
+
 - Various improvements to unittest.py, realigned with PyUnit CVS.
 
 - dircache now passes exceptions to the caller, instead of returning