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+Merged with pypa/distutils@55982565e, including interoperability improvements for rfc822_escape (pypa/distutils#213), dynamic resolution of config_h_filename for Python 3.13 compatibility (pypa/distutils#219), added support for the z/OS compiler (pypa/distutils#216), modernized compiler options in unixcompiler (pypa/distutils#214), fixed accumulating flags bug after compile/link (pypa/distutils#207), fixed enconding warnings (pypa/distutils#236), and general quality improvements (pypa/distutils#234).