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6 changes: 6 additions & 0 deletions Doc/whatsnew/3.7.rst
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:c:func:`PyOS_AfterFork_Child`. (Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in
:issue:`16500`.)

* The Windows build process no longer depends on Subversion to pull in external
sources, a Python script is used to download zipfiles from GitHub instead.
If Python 3.6 is not found on the system (via ``py -3.6``), NuGet is used to
download a copy of 32-bit Python for this purpose. (Contributed by Zachary
Ware in :issue:`30450`.)


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- bpo-30450: The build process on Windows no longer depends on Subversion,
instead pulling external code from GitHub via a Python script. If Python 3.6
is not found on the system (via ``py -3.6``), NuGet is used to download a
copy of 32-bit Python.

- bpo-29579: Removes readme.txt from the installer.

- Issue #25778: winreg does not truncate string correctly (Patch by Eryk Sun)
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