diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -154,6 +154,9 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #6986: Fix crash in the JSON C accelerator when called with the
+  wrong parameter types.  Patch by Victor Stinner.
+
 - Issue #7457: added a read_pkg_file method to 
   distutils.dist.DistributionMetadata.