Issue #1692335: Move initial args assignment to BaseException.__new__
to help pickling of naive subclasses.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index cabea97..5201d49 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #1692335: Move initial args assignment to
+  BaseException.__new__ to help pickling of naive subclasses.
+
 - Issue #12834: Fix PyBuffer_ToContiguous() for non-contiguous arrays.
 
 - Issue #15456: Fix code __sizeof__ after #12399 change.