diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -283,6 +283,8 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #8168: py_compile now handles files with utf-8 BOMS.
+
 - ``tokenize.detect_encoding`` now returns ``'utf-8-sig'`` when a UTF-8 BOM is
   detected.