diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -81,6 +81,15 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- a new ``urllib`` package was created.  It consists of code from
+  ``urllib``, ``urllib2``, ``urlparse``, and ``robotparser``.  The old
+  modules have all been removed.  The new package has five submodules:
+  ``urllib.parse``, ``urllib.request``, ``urllib.response``,
+  ``urllib.error``, and ``urllib.robotparser``.  The
+  ``urllib.request.urlopen()`` function uses the url opener from
+  ``urllib2``.  (Note that the unittests have not been renamed for the
+  beta, but they will be renamed in the future.)
+
 - rfc822 has been removed in favor of the email package.
 
 - mimetools has been removed in favor of the email package.