diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@
 Library
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+- tarfile.py: Add support for all missing variants of the GNU sparse
+  extensions and create files with holes when extracting sparse members.
+
 - Issue #10218: Return timeout status from ``Condition.wait`` in threading.
 
 - Issue #7351: Add ``zipfile.BadZipFile`` spelling of the exception name