diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -87,6 +87,9 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #6493: An issue in ctypes on Windows that caused structure bitfields
+  of type ctypes.c_uint32 and width 32 to incorrectly be set has been fixed.
+
 - Issue #14635: telnetlib will use poll() rather than select() when possible
   to avoid failing due to the select() file descriptor limit.