diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -157,6 +157,10 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #7349: Make methods of file objects in the io module accept None as an
+  argument where file-like objects (ie StringIO and BytesIO) accept them to mean
+  the same as passing no argument.
+
 - Issue #7357: tarfile no longer suppresses fatal extraction errors by
   default.