diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 58fa750..c9b4e23 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@
 Library
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+- Patch 1046644: distutils build_ext grew two new options - --swig for
+  specifying the swig executable to use, and --swig-opts to specify 
+  options to pass to swig. --swig-opts="-c++" is the new way to spell
+  --swig-cpp.
+
 - Patch 983206: distutils now obeys environment variable LDSHARED, if
   it is set.