diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index de27616..a0206ab 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -325,6 +325,7 @@
 John J. Lee
 Luc Lefebvre
 Kip Lehman
+Joerg Lehmann
 Marc-Andre Lemburg
 William Lewis
 Robert van Liere
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 93c7fb8..ee464ca 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 
 - The signal module now exposes SIGRTMIN and SIGRTMAX (if available).
 
+- curses module now supports use_default_colors().  [patch #739124]
+
 Library
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