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@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #20879: Delay the initialization of encoding and decoding tables for
+  base32, ascii85 and base85 codecs in the base64 module, and delay the
+  initialization of the unquote_to_bytes() table of the urllib.parse module, to
+  not waste memory if these modules are not used.
+
 - Issue #19157: Include the broadcast address in the usuable hosts for IPv6
   in ipaddress.