Issue 7893 and Issue 7588
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0300b4f..75198d7 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
- Issue #6003: add an argument to ``zipfile.Zipfile.writestr`` to
specify the compression type.
+- Issue #7893: ``unittest.TextTestResult`` is made public and a ``resultclass``
+ argument added to the TextTestRunner constructor allowing a different result
+ class to be used without having to subclass.
+- Issue 7588: ``unittest.TextTestResult.getDescription`` now includes the test
+ name in failure reports even if the test has a docstring.
What's New in Python 2.7 alpha 3?