diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 28923c7..3b55447 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
 - Issue #10898: Allow compiling the posix module when the C library defines
   a symbol named FSTAT.
 
+- Issue #10980: the HTTP server now encodes headers with iso-8859-1 (latin1)
+  encoding.  This is the preferred encoding of PEP 3333 and the base encoding
+  of HTTP 1.1.
+
 
 What's New in Python 3.2 Release Candidate 1
 ============================================