diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 089e463..0ce586e 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -525,6 +525,7 @@
 Sjoerd Mullender
 Sape Mullender
 Michael Muller
+Neil Muller
 R. David Murray
 Piotr Meyer
 John Nagle
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1a752fc..0300b4f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -78,6 +78,11 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")
+  in XML processing instructions and comments.  These raw characters are
+  allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
+  PHP code in a processing instruction.  Patch by Neil Muller.
+
 - Issue #7869: logging: improved diagnostic for format-time errors.
 
 - Issue #7868: logging: added loggerClass attribute to Manager.