diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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 Library
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+- Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
+  symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.
+
 - Issue #8887: "pydoc somebuiltin.somemethod" (or help('somebuiltin.somemethod')
   in Python code) now finds the doc of the method.