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@@ -2234,3 +2234,16 @@ because of the behavior of the socket option ``SO_REUSEADDR`` in UDP. For more
details, see the documentation for ``loop.create_datagram_endpoint()``.
(Contributed by Kyle Stanley, Antoine Pitrou, and Yury Selivanov in
:issue:`37228`.)
+
+Notable changes in Python 3.8.8
+===============================
+
+Earlier Python versions allowed using both ";" and "&" as
+query parameter separators in :func:`urllib.parse.parse_qs` and
+:func:`urllib.parse.parse_qsl`. Due to security concerns, and to conform with
+newer W3C recommendations, this has been changed to allow only a single
+separator key, with "&" as the default. This change also affects
+:func:`cgi.parse` and :func:`cgi.parse_multipart` as they use the affected
+functions internally. For more details, please see their respective
+documentation.
+(Contributed by Adam Goldschmidt, Senthil Kumaran and Ken Jin in :issue:`42967`.) \ No newline at end of file