diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7eb6107..3c162a6d9 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -158,6 +158,9 @@
 - Issue #9753: Fixed socket.dup, which did not always work correctly
   on Windows.
 
+- Issue #9421: Made the get<type> methods consistently accept the vars
+  and default arguments on all parser classes.
+
 - Issue #7005: Fixed output of None values for RawConfigParser.write and
   ConfigParser.write.