diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 82a13d9..cd196cf 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- PyObject_Dump() encodes unicode objects to utf8 with backslashreplace
+  (instead of strict) error handler to escape surrogates
+
 - Issue #8124: PySys_WriteStdout() and PySys_WriteStderr() don't execute
   indirectly Python signal handlers anymore because mywrite() ignores
   exceptions (KeyboardInterrupt)