gh-95913: Add WhatsNew section for new logging APIs (GH-98320)

miss-islington · CAM-Gerlach · web-flow · commit 202eb48a7665 · 2022-10-18T21:34:40.000-07:00
* Add entry for new logging.getLevelNamesMapping function * Add entry for SysLogHandler.createSocket to whatsnew * Add missing line break between logging bullet list items (cherry picked from commit 251b8cc) Co-authored-by: C.A.M. Gerlach <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>
diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
@@ -799,6 +799,26 @@ locale
   ``locale.getpreferredencoding(False)`` but ignores the
   :ref:`Python UTF-8 Mode <utf8-mode>`.
 
+
+.. _whatsnew311-logging:
+
+logging
+-------
+
+* Added :func:`~logging.getLevelNamesMapping`
+  to return a mapping from logging level names (e.g. ``'CRITICAL'``)
+  to the values of their corresponding :ref:`levels` (e.g. ``50``, by default).
+  (Contributed by Andrei Kulakovin in :gh:`88024`.)
+
+* Added a :meth:`~logging.handlers.SysLogHandler.createSocket` method
+  to :class:`~logging.handlers.SysLogHandler`, to match
+  :meth:`SocketHandler.createSocket()
+  <logging.handlers.SocketHandler.createSocket>`.
+  It is called automatically during handler initialization
+  and when emitting an event, if there is no active socket.
+  (Contributed by Kirill Pinchuk in :gh:`88457`.)
+
+
 math
 ----
 
