diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 2c957e3..486e2af 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -689,6 +689,7 @@
 Andrew Kuchling
 Dave Kuhlman
 Jon Kuhn
+Toshio Kuratomi
 Vladimir Kushnir
 Erno Kuusela
 Ross Lagerwall
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 5eacf9c..3596b4e 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #17429: platform.linux_distribution() now decodes files from the UTF-8
+  encoding with the surrogateescape error handler, instead of decoding from the
+  locale encoding in strict mode. It fixes the function on Fedora 19 which is
+  probably the first major distribution release with a non-ASCII name. Patch
+  written by Toshio Kuratomi.
+
 - Issue #19929: Call os.read with 32768 within subprocess.Popen.communicate
   rather than 4096 for efficiency.  A microbenchmark shows Linux and OS X
   both using ~50% less cpu time this way.