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Update whatsnew for imaplib changes. Move importlib work to end of section.

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@ -349,6 +349,16 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
(Contributed by Ross Light; :issue:`4285`.)
* A new module, :mod:`ipaddr` has been added to the standard library.
It provides classes to represent, verify and manipulate IPv4 and IPv6
host and network addresses.
(Contributed by Google, :issue:`3959`.)
* The :mod:`nntplib` :mod:`imaplib` modules now support IPv6.
(Contributed by Derek Morr; :issue:`1655` and :issue:`1664`.)
* A new module, :mod:`importlib` was added. It provides a complete, portable,
pure Python reference implementation of the :keyword:`import` statement and its
counterpart, the :func:`__import__` function. It represents a substantial
@ -357,16 +367,6 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
(Contributed by Brett Cannon.)
* A new module, :mod:`ipaddr` has been added to the standard library.
It provides classes to represent, verify and manipulate IPv4 and IPv6
host and network addresses.
(Contributed by Google, :issue:`3959`.)
* The :mod:`nntplib` module now supports IPv6.
(Contributed by Derek Morr; :issue:`1664`.)
Optimizations
=============
@ -407,11 +407,13 @@ Major performance enhancements have been added:
only with :class:`str`, not with :class:`bytes`. That change makes the
module more closely conform to the `JSON specification <http://json.org/>`_
which is defined in terms of Unicode.
(Contributed by Bob Ippolito and converted to Py3.1 by Antoine Pitrou
and Benjamin Peterson; :issue:`4136`.)
* Unpickling now interns the attribute names of pickled objects. This saves
memory and allows pickles to be smaller.
(Contributed by Jake McGuire and Antoine Pitrou; :issue:`5084`.)
Build and C API Changes
@ -452,9 +454,8 @@ Changes to Python's build process and to the C API include:
* Added :ctype:`PyCapsule` as a replacement for the :ctype:`PyCObject` API.
The principal difference is that the new type has a well defined interface
for passing typing safety information and a less complicated signature
for calling a destructor.
The old type had a problematic API and is now deprecated.
for calling a destructor. The old type had a problematic API and is now
deprecated.
(Contributed by Larry Hastings; :issue:`5630`.)