From 251b8ccd2a4354840ed2d3aeb9b643a999ba792f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "C.A.M. Gerlach" <CAM.Gerlach@Gerlach.CAM>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2022 23:25:58 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] gh-95913: Add WhatsNew section for new logging APIs (#98320)

* Add entry for new logging.getLevelNamesMapping function

* Add entry for SysLogHandler.createSocket to whatsnew

* Add missing line break between logging bullet list items
---
 Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
index 79afc1f99e99d9..a8dbe06b00b653 100644
--- 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
 ----