[Python-checkins] gh-89313: Add hashlib.file_digest to whatsnew 3.11 (GH-95965)

[miss-islington]

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/d89f5fe1f4ee630a83196a7a7bf5a03a81036bb5
commit: d89f5fe1f4ee630a83196a7a7bf5a03a81036bb5
branch: 3.11
author: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
committer: miss-islington <31488909+miss-islington at users.noreply.github.com>
date: 2022-08-13T12:55:15-07:00
summary:

gh-89313: Add hashlib.file_digest to whatsnew 3.11 (GH-95965)


Automerge-Triggered-By: GH:pablogsal
(cherry picked from commit 0b329f4f03b3e2d603cf81c39e7c9d83da123717)

Co-authored-by: Christian Heimes <christian at python.org>

files:
M Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst

diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
index 6c8f7913a34..99cf77dadb5 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
@@ -592,6 +592,10 @@ hashlib
   OpenSSL support.
   (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`47098`.)
 
+* Add :func:`hashlib.file_digest`, a helper function for efficient hashing
+  of files or file-like objects.
+  (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :gh:`89313`.)
+
 IDLE and idlelib
 ----------------