Added bytes and b'' as aliases for str and ''
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5060b68..cc74e16 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #1865: Bytes as an alias for str and b"" as an alias "" were
+  added.
+
 - sys.float_info / PyFloat_GetInfo: The floating point information
   object was converted from a dict to a specialized structseq object.