diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -214,6 +214,10 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #17368: Fix an off-by-one error in the Python JSON decoder that caused
+  a failure while decoding empty object literals when object_pairs_hook was
+  specified.
+
 - Issue #17278: Fix a crash in heapq.heappush() and heapq.heappop() when
   the list is being resized concurrently.