diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index a20550e..1c1b372 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -638,6 +638,7 @@
 John Redford
 Terry Reedy
 Steve Reeves
+Lennart Regebro
 Ofir Reichenberg
 Sean Reifschneider
 Michael P. Reilly
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 3fd0178..cde2905 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #7490: to facilitate sharing of doctests between 2.x and 3.x test
+  suites, the IGNORE_EXCEPTION_DETAIL directive now also ignores the module
+  location of the raised exception.
+
 - Issue #8969: On Windows, use mbcs codec in strict mode to encode and decode
   filenames and enable os.fsencode().