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Version 5.0.1
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Features Changed
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* Internally, when using Python 3.8 or newer, the PyConfig API will now be used
  due to deprecation and future removal of older C API alternatives. This was
  required to support Python 3.13.

Bugs Fixed
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* Fix issue which could result in process crashing when values were supplied
  for user/password/realm of HTTP basic authentication which weren't compliant
  with UTF-8 encoding format.

* Fix memory leak in `check_password()` authentication hook handler.

* Change use of deprecated `thread.setDaemon` to `thread.daemon`.