#6516 added owner/group support for tarfiles in Distutils
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -390,6 +390,9 @@
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+- Issue #6516: Added owner/group support when creating tar archives in 
+  Distutils.
+
 - Issue #7031: Add TestCase.assert(Not)IsInstance() methods.
 
 - Issue #6790: Make it possible again to pass an `array.array` to