ensure .keywords is always a dict
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e76f187..b5a149c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@
 Library
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+- The keywords attribute of functools.partial is now always a dictionary.
+
 - Issue #24134: assertRaises() and assertRaisesRegexp() checks are not longer
   successful if the callable is None.