Update 2026-04-10-16-19-23.gh-issue-148263.trqp3-.rst

Author: prakashsellathurai

Misc/NEWS.d/next/Core_and_Builtins/2026-04-10-16-19-23.gh-issue-148263.trqp3-.rst

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-fix refcount leak in weakref proxy unwrapping by introducing a safe
-_proxy_unwrap helper
+Fix refcount leak in weakref proxy operations:
+When a weakref proxy was used in binary, ternary, or rich comparison operations
+and the second argument turned out to be a dead proxy, the first argument's
+reference count was already incremented by the unwrap step but never released,
+ causing a memory leak.This patch replaces the old UNWRAP macro with
+ a proper inline function _proxy_unwrap() that tracks whether each
+ argument was incref'd, and introduces cleanup paths (goto clean_up)
+ that correctly decref any already-acquired references before
+ returning NULL on failure. Also added reference cleanup in unary and compare 
+ operations.