diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 32f188c..54ebf59 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #6268: Fix seek() method of codecs.open(), don't read the BOM twice
+  after seek(0)
+
 - Issue #8782: Add a trailing newline in linecache.updatecache to the last line
   of files without one.