Backport 70106: Add OrderedDict support to collections.namedtuple().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 72e17b3..70160bb 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -170,6 +170,8 @@
 
 - PEP 372:  Added collections.OrderedDict().
 
+- The _asdict() for method for namedtuples now returns an OrderedDict().
+
 - Issue #4308: httplib.IncompleteRead's repr doesn't include all of the data all
   ready received.