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 What's new in psycopg 2.6.1
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+- Fixed deadlock in multithread programs using OpenSSL (:ticket:`#290`).
 - Correctly unlock the connection after error in flush (:ticket:`#294`).
 - Fixed ``MinTimeLoggingCursor.callproc()`` (:ticket:`#309`).