- Issue 4816: itertools.combinations() and itertools.product were raising
  a ValueError for values of *r* larger than the input iterable.  They now
  correctly return an empty iterator.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index eaad519..f9aa06f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@
 Library
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+- Issue 4816: itertools.combinations() and itertools.product were raising
+  a ValueError for values of *r* larger than the input iterable.  They now
+  correctly return an empty iterator.
+
 - Fractions.from_float() no longer loses precision for integers too big to
   cast as floats.