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NEWS
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Add a note about the backport of email 2.4


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Library

+ - The email package from the Python 2.3 development tree has been
+ backported, including updated documentation. This version
+ corresponds to email 2.4 and should be nearly completely backward
+ compatible. However there have been lots of improvements in the
+ API, so you should read the section in the library manual about the
+ changes since email v1.
+
- random.gauss() uses a piece of hidden state used by nothing else,
and the .seed() and .whseed() methods failed to reset it. In other