diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 8352715..03f73a2 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -442,6 +442,7 @@
 Ivan Krstić
 Andrew Kuchling
 Vladimir Kushnir
+Ross Lagerwall
 Cameron Laird
 Łukasz Langa
 Tino Lange
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d8fd483..2b09d5f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #10714: Limit length of incoming request in http.server to 65536 bytes
+  for security reasons.  Initial patch by Ross Lagerwall.
+
 - Issue #9558: Fix distutils.command.build_ext with VS 8.0.
 
 - Issue #10695: passing the port as a string value to telnetlib no longer