diff -r 3e7f88550788 Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst	Thu Aug 28 12:30:00 2014 -0400
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/2.7.rst	Sat Aug 30 00:06:12 2014 +1000
@@ -2554,7 +2554,6 @@
 * upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1g for the prebuilt Windows installers published
   on python.org (contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:`21462`)
 
-
 :pep:`466` related features added in Python 2.7.8:
 
 * :func:`hashlib.pbkdf2_hmac` was backported from Python 3 to make a hashing
@@ -2565,6 +2564,33 @@
   on python.org (contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:`21671` for
   CVE-2014-0224)
 
+:pep:`466` related features added in Python 2.7.9:
+
+* the :mod:`ssl` module has been almost entirely synchronised with its
+  Python 3.4 counterpart, bringing TLSv1.x settings, SSLContext manipulation,
+  Server Name Indication, access to platform certificate stores,
+  standard library support for peer hostname validation and more
+  to the Python 2 series (backported by Alex Gaynor and David Reid
+  in :issue:`21308`).
+
+  Refer to the "Version added: 2.7.9" notes in the module documentation for
+  specific details. Note that the ssl.RAND_* functions that provide access
+  to OpenSSL's random number generation capabilities have not been backported
+  - use :func:`os.urandom` instead
+
+* the change to :func:`os.urandom` to use a lazily-opened persistent file
+  descriptor so as to avoid using many file descriptors when run in parallel
+  from multiple threads was backported from Python 3 (backported by Alex
+  Gaynor in :issue:`21305`)
+
+* :data:`hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed` and
+  :data:`hashlib.algorithms_available` were backported from Python 3 to make
+  it easier for Python 2 applications to select the strongest available hash
+  algorithm (backported by Alex Gaynor in :issue:`21307`)
+
+* upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0.1i for the prebuilt Windows installers published
+  on python.org (contributed by Zachary Ware in :issue:`22160`)
+
 
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