From a204e08096b0617f03d812c28840d2f39be96fd2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Waygood <alex.waygood@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 7 May 2024 11:58:48 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gh-109653: What's new: Note improved import times for several
 stdlib modules in Python 3.13

---
 Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst
index df38a6154701c3..196c10c748fe1f 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.13.rst
@@ -999,6 +999,12 @@ Optimizations
   section above for details.
   (Contributed by Jakub Kulik in :gh:`113117`.)
 
+* Several standard library modules have had their import times significantly
+  improved. The improved modules include :mod:`typing`, :mod:`importlib.metadata`,
+  :mod:`email.utils`, :mod:`functools` and :mod:`enum`.
+  (Contributed by Alex Waygood, Shantanu Jain, Adam Turner, Daniel Hollas and
+  others in :gh:`109653`.)
+
 .. _whatsnew313-jit-compiler:
 
 Experimental JIT Compiler