diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b286f8b..2b6a890 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -39,6 +39,9 @@
 
 Library
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+ 
+- Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
+  of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.
 
 - Issue #12841: tarfile unnecessarily checked the existence of numerical user
   and group ids on extraction. If one of them did not exist the respective id