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 Library
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+- Issue #17508: Corrected MemoryHandler configuration in dictConfig() where
+  the target handler wasn't configured first.
+
 - Issue #10212: cStringIO and struct.unpack support new buffer objects.
 
 - Issue #12098: multiprocessing on Windows now starts child processes