diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 6010ace..6929e36 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -700,6 +700,7 @@
 Steven Reiz
 Roeland Rengelink
 Tim Rice
+Francesco Ricciardi
 Jan Pieter Riegel
 Armin Rigo
 Nicholas Riley
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8c7c7fd..0683245 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #10042: Fixed the total_ordering decorator to handle cross-type
+  comparisons that could lead to infinite recursion.
+
 - Issue #10686: the email package now :rfc:`2047`\ -encodes headers with
   non-ASCII bytes (parsed by a Bytes Parser) when doing conversion to
   7bit-clean presentation, instead of replacing them with ?s.