diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -369,6 +369,9 @@
 Library
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+- #856047: respect the ``no_proxy`` environment variable when using the
+  ``http_proxy`` etc. environment variables in urllib.
+
 - #1178141: add a getcode() method to the addinfourls that urllib.open()
   returns so that you can retrieve the HTTP status code.