Title: Upgrade bundled Expat to 2.8.1 (e.g. for the fix to CVE-2026-45186) · Issue #149698 · python/cpython · GitHub
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Description: Please see blog post https://blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-2-8-1-released/ for an overview and the change log at https://github.com/libexpat/libexpat/blob/R_2_8_1/expat/Changes for details. Affects all alive branches of Python. Thank you...
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