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+  o Testing:
+    - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and real
+      file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with GitHub Actions,
+      where the process that embeds or launches the tests has already opened a
+      large number of file descriptors.
+      Fixes bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
+      Found and fixed by Putta Khunchalee.