News about zlib-1.1.4.

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Extension modules
- A security hole ("double free") was found in zlib-1.1.3, a popular
third party compression library used by some Python modules. The
hole was quickly plugged in zlib-1.1.4, and the Windows build of
Python now ships with zlib-1.1.4.
- pwd and grp return enhanced tuples now, with symbolic field names.
- array.array is now a type object. A new format character