[Bug #1552726] Avoid unnecessary polling at the interpreter prompt when certain versions of readline are being used
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index eeab829..9876af9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -139,6 +139,8 @@
 - Modifying an empty deque during iteration now raises RuntimeError
   instead of StopIteration.
 
+- Bug #1552726: fix polling at the interpreter prompt when certain
+  versions of the readline library are in use.
 
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