Updates of recent changes to logging.

Misc/NEWS

@@ -207,6 +207,17 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
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+- Added an optional credentials argument to SMTPHandler, for use with SMTP
+  servers which require authentication.
+
+- Patch #1695948: Added optional timeout parameter to SocketHandler.
+
+- Bug #1652788: Minor fix for currentframe.
+
+- Patch #1598415: Added WatchedFileHandler to better support external
+  log file rotation using e.g. newsyslog or logrotate. This handler is
+  only useful in Unix/Linux environments.
+
 - Bug #1706381: Specifying the SWIG option "-c++" in the setup.py file
   (as opposed to the command line) will now write file names ending in
   ".cpp" too.