diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1289844..c0b6431 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -416,6 +416,8 @@
 
 - Issue #1916. Added isgenerator() and isgeneratorfunction() to inspect.py.
 
+- #1224: Fixed bad url parsing when path begins with double slash.
+
 - ctypes instances that are not or do not contain pointers can now be
   pickled.