diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index f5fa82f..6a4fdd5 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@
 David Beazley
 Robin Becker
 Neal Becker
+Torsten Becker
 Bill Bedford
 Stefan Behnel
 Reimer Behrends
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1a5784a..663846f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@
 - Issue #8278: On Windows and with a NTFS filesystem, os.stat() and os.utime()
   can now handle dates after 2038.
 
+- issue #11828: startswith and endswith don't accept None as slice index.
+  Patch by Torsten Becker.
+
 - Issue #4236: PyModule_Create2 now checks the import machinery directly
   rather than the Py_IsInitialized flag, avoiding a Fatal Python
   error in certain circumstances when an import is done in __del__.