diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@
 Library
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+- Patch #1966: Break infinite loop in httplib when the servers
+  implements the chunked encoding incorrectly.
+
 - tarfile.py: Fix reading of xstar archives.
 
 - #2021: Allow tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile to be used in with statements