diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 01d18ec..ea6f1a1 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -237,6 +237,7 @@
 Martijn Faassen
 Andreas Faerber
 Bill Fancher
+Troy J. Farrell
 Mark Favas
 Niels Ferguson
 Sebastian Fernandez
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0b43d19..b92cdc8 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -137,6 +137,10 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
+  xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
+  http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace.  Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
+
 - #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.
 
 - Issue #5117: Case normalization was needed on ntpath.relpath(). And