diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 898af48..7b6002c 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -156,6 +156,7 @@
 Jonathan Dasteel
 John DeGood
 Vincent Delft
+Erik Demaine
 Roger Dev
 Toby Dickenson
 Yves Dionne
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d03c4b5..ee4b538 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -168,6 +168,10 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Patch #1533909: the timeit module now accepts callables in addition to
+  strings for the code to time and the setup code. Also added two
+  convenience functions for instantiating a Timer and calling its methods.
+
 - Patch #1537850: tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile now has a "delete" parameter
   which can be set to False to prevent the default delete-on-close
   behavior.