#12753: Add support for Unicode name aliases and named sequences.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@
 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #12753: Add support for Unicode name aliases and named sequences.
+  Both :func:`unicodedata.lookup()` and '\N{...}' now resolve aliases,
+  and :func:`unicodedata.lookup()` resolves named sequences too.
+
 - Issue #12170: The count(), find(), rfind(), index() and rindex() methods
   of bytes and bytearray objects now accept an integer between 0 and 255
   as their first argument.  Patch by Petri Lehtinen.