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 Library
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+- Issue #25873: Optimized iterating ElementTree.  Iterating elements
+  Element.iter() is now 40% faster, iterating text Element.itertext()
+  is now up to 2.5 times faster.
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 - Issue #25902: Fixed various refcount issues in ElementTree iteration.
 
 - Issue #22227: The TarFile iterator is reimplemented using generator.