#10869: do not visit root node twice in ast.increment_lineno().
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@
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+- Issue #10869: Fixed bug where ast.increment_lineno modified the root
+  node twice.
+
 - Issue #5871: email.header.Header.encode now raises an error if any
   continuation line in the formatted value has no leading white space
   and looks like a header.  Since Generator uses Header to format all