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Bug fixes
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- Reverted explicitly closing sockets if an exception is raised during ``create_connection`` -- by :user:`bdraco`.
This change originally appeared in aiohttp 3.11.13
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`10464`, :issue:`10617`, :issue:`10656`.
Miscellaneous internal changes
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- Improved performance of WebSocket buffer handling -- by :user:`bdraco`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`10601`.
- Improved performance of serializing headers -- by :user:`bdraco`.
*Related issues and pull requests on GitHub:*
:issue:`10625`.
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