diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1335dbc..5a59310 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -421,6 +421,8 @@
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+- Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
+
 - Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its
   value to bytes instead of str (as done for c_char and c_char_p).