bpo-39906: Document new follow_symlinks argument to pathlib.Path.stat…

…() and chmod() in 3.10 whatsnew. (GH-26089) (cherry picked from commit 366c69f) Co-authored-by: Barney Gale <[email protected]>
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@@ -1104,6 +1104,11 @@ supersedes :meth:`~pathlib.Path.link_to`. The new method has the same argument
 order as :meth:`~pathlib.Path.symlink_to`.
 (Contributed by Barney Gale in :issue:`39950`.)
 
+:meth:`pathlib.Path.stat` and :meth:`~pathlib.Path.chmod` now accept a
+*follow_symlinks* keyword-only argument for consistency with corresponding
+functions in the :mod:`os` module.
+(Contributed by Barney Gale in :issue:`39906`.)
+
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