Added 'handlers' argument to logging.basicConfig.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8df6f4b..d02a22e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -103,6 +103,10 @@
 Library
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+- logging.basicConfig now supports an optional 'handlers' argument taking an
+  iterable of handlers to be added to the root logger. Additional parameter
+  checks were also added to basicConfig.
+
 - Issue #11814: Fix likely typo in multiprocessing.Pool._terminate().
 
 - Issue #8428: Fix a race condition in multiprocessing.Pool when terminating