diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #2676: in the email package, content-type parsing was hanging on
+  pathological input because of quadratic or exponential behaviour of a
+  regular expression.
+
 - Issue #3476: binary buffered reading through the new "io" library is now
   thread-safe.