diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ab662cb..21e5e3c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -31,6 +31,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #8394: _ctypes.dlopen() accepts bytes, bytearray and str with
+  surrogates.
+
 - Issue #7606: XML-RPC traceback stored in X-traceback is now encoded to ASCII
   using backslashreplace error handler