diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 7f97de6..9795219 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -153,6 +153,7 @@
 Jeffery Collins
 Robert Collins
 Paul Colomiets
+Geremy Condra
 Juan José Conti
 Matt Conway
 David M. Cooke
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a5e0164..65ab474 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -428,6 +428,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #8986: math.erfc was incorrectly raising OverflowError for
+  values between -27.3 and -30.0 on some platforms.
+
 - Issue #8784: Set tarfile default encoding to 'utf-8' on Windows.
 
 - Issue #8966: If a ctypes structure field is an array of c_char, convert its