Bug #1417699: Reject locale-specific decimal point in float()
and atof().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a5faa9b..4740104 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 Core and builtins
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+- Bug #1417699: Reject locale-specific decimal point in float()
+  and atof().
+
 - Bug #1511381: codec_getstreamcodec() in codec.c is corrected to
   omit a default "error" argument for NULL pointer.  This allows
   the parser to take a codec from cjkcodecs again.