#10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
        with non-ASCII characters in their path names.

        (with approval of release manager for 3.2rc2)
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b6b953e..07f493a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #10974: IDLE no longer crashes if its recent files list includes files
+  with non-ASCII characters in their path names.
+
 - Have hashlib.algorithms_available and hashlib.algorithms_guaranteed both
   return sets instead of one returning a tuple and the other a frozenset.