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* Add What's New entry for addition of datetime.timezone to the C API

Closes bpo-10381

* Add what's new entry for date and datetime optimizations

Closes bpo-32403
(cherry picked from commit 5bd04f9)

Co-authored-by: Paul Ganssle <pganssle@users.noreply.github.com>
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start-up time by up to 10%. (Contributed by Ivan Levkivskyi and INADA Naoki
in :issue:`31333`)

* Significant speed improvements to alternate constructors for
:class:`datetime.date` and :class:`datetime.datetime` by using fast-path
constructors when not constructing subclasses. (Contributed by Paul Ganssle
in :issue:`32403`)

Build and C API Changes
=======================

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* Support for building ``--without-threads`` is removed.
(Contributed by Antoine Pitrou in :issue:`31370`.).

* Added C API support for timezones with timezone constructors
:c:func:`PyTimeZone_FromOffset` and :c:func:`PyTimeZone_FromOffsetAndName`,
and access to the UTC singleton with :c:data:`PyDateTime_TimeZone_UTC`.
Contributed by Paul Ganssle in :issue:`10381`.


Other CPython Implementation Changes
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