diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -74,7 +74,9 @@
 
 - Speed up some Unicode operations.
 
-- A new AST parser implementation was completed.
+- A new AST parser implementation was completed. The abstract
+  syntax tree is available for read-only (non-compile) access
+  to Python code.
 
 - SF bug #1167751: fix incorrect code being for generator expressions.
   The following code now raises a SyntaxError:  foo(a = i for i in range(10))