diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 86ff1ea..ac10a3a 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -622,6 +622,7 @@
 J. Sipprell
 Kragen Sitaker
 Christopher Smith
+Eric V. Smith
 Gregory P. Smith
 Rafal Smotrzyk
 Dirk Soede
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index db403ed..80bfd7b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 Core and builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue 1745.  Backport print function with:
+   from __future__ import print_function
+
 - Issue 2332: add new attribute names for instance method objects.
   The two changes are:  im_self -> __self__ and im_func -> __func__