diff --git a/Doc/lib/libcodecs.tex b/Doc/lib/libcodecs.tex
index 7e22386..bd5f3c9 100644
--- a/Doc/lib/libcodecs.tex
+++ b/Doc/lib/libcodecs.tex
@@ -883,7 +883,7 @@
         {all languages (BMP only)}
 
 \lineiii{utf_7}
-        {U7}
+        {U7, unicode-1-1-utf-7}
         {all languages}
 
 \lineiii{utf_8}
diff --git a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
index bf7643e..7362e78 100644
--- a/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
+++ b/Lib/encodings/aliases.py
@@ -482,6 +482,7 @@
     # utf_7 codec
     'u7'                 : 'utf_7',
     'utf7'               : 'utf_7',
+    'unicode_1_1_utf_7'  : 'utf_7',
 
     # utf_8 codec
     'u8'                 : 'utf_8',
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 4f134e1..77e8569 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -517,6 +517,8 @@
 - Bug #1202493: Fixing SRE parser to handle '{}' as perl does, rather than
   considering it exactly like a '*'.
 
+- Bug #1245379: Add "unicode-1-1-utf-7" as an alias for "utf-7" to
+  ``encodings.aliases``.
 
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