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CHANGELOG.md

@@ -76,6 +76,12 @@ to for one release are gone.
   interface can no longer start or stop on-demand sessions or clear errors
   on a running display (the mailbox used to carry them).
 
+## 3.8.2
+
+The display hands freed memory back to the OS (#774), and sports consolidation
+family 6: `src.common.sports_favorites`, which the scoreboards adopt by
+flooring on 3.8.2 (#775).
+
 ### The display hands freed memory back to the OS
 
 The display process's resident memory climbed in steps for hours while the
@@ -99,6 +105,19 @@ already at 651 MB after 1 h 44 min) against 412 and 386 MB with this change,
 and the 20-minute frame soaks came out at 0.147-0.165% late against main's
 0.151-0.188%.
 
+### New modules
+
+- `src/common/sports_favorites.py` -- sports consolidation family 6, once the
+  plugins made `_is_favorite_game` (seven bodies), `_select_games_for_display`
+  (two) and `_select_recent_games_for_display` (three) one each:
+  `SportsFavoritesMixin` (`SportsCore`: `_is_favorite_game`, `_favorite_code`),
+  `SportsUpcomingFavoritesMixin` and `SportsRecentFavoritesMixin` (the
+  favourites-only picks). Each side of a game is named by the 3.5.0
+  `_favorite_key` seam and compared with `favorite_teams` stripped and
+  upper-cased; nrl overrides the key with the ESPN team id. Only a game with an
+  id can be a duplicate. A plugin may inherit the mixins once it floors on
+  3.8.2, and deletes its copies then. (#775)
+
 ## 3.8.1
 
 Smooth scrolling at the slower speeds, and the fixes and performance work