gh-83728: Add hmac.new default parameter deprecation (GH-91939) (GH-9…

…3544) (cherry picked from commit 56b5daf) Co-authored-by: Stanley <46876382+slateny@users.noreply.github.com>
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@@ -2005,6 +2005,8 @@ Changes in the Python API
   ``replace()`` method of :class:`types.CodeType` can be used to make the code
   future-proof.
 
+* The parameter ``digestmod`` for :func:`hmac.new` no longer uses the MD5 digest
+  by default.
 
 Changes in the C API
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