Fix Issue8797 - Reset the basic auth retry count when response code is not 401.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ecb1a4f..7ef147d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -132,6 +132,9 @@
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+- Issue #8797: urllib2 does a retry for Basic Authentication failure instead of
+  falling into recursion.
+
 - Issue #1194222: email.utils.parsedate now returns RFC2822 compliant four
   character years even if the message contains RFC822 two character years.