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@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ What's new in Python 3.0b1?
 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #2630: implement PEP 3138. repr() now returns printable
+  Unicode characters unescaped, to get an ASCII-only representation
+  of an object use ascii().
+
 - Issue #1342: On windows, Python could not start when installed in a
   directory with non-ascii characters.