diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8f67bf0..bf35d9c 100644
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@@ -271,6 +271,9 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #9561: distutils now reads and writes egg-info files using UTF-8,
+  instead of the locale encoding.
+
 - Issue #8286: The distutils command sdist will print a warning message instead
   of crashing when an invalid path is given in the manifest template.