Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 08a8f43..3db47a3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@
Library
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+- Patch #918101: Add tarfile open mode r|* for auto-detection of the
+ stream compression; add, for symmetry reasons, r:* as a synonym of r.
+
- Patch #1043890: Add extractall method to tarfile.
- Patch #1075887: Don't require MSVC in distutils if there is nothing