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+  o Minor bugfixes (compilation, hardening):
+    - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
+      configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
+      -fsanitize=address.  Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.