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+- Issue #7282: Fix a memory leak when an RLock was used in a thread other
+  than those started through `threading.Thread` (for example, using
+  `_thread.start_new_thread()`).
+
 - Issue #7187: Importlib would not silence the IOError raised when trying to
   write new bytecode when it was made read-only.