diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 7275ad4..2004456 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -124,6 +124,10 @@
 
 Library
 
+- Stop using strings for exceptions.  String objects used for exceptions
+  now derive from Exception.  The objects changed were: Tkinter.TclError,
+  bdb.BdbQuit, macpath.norm_error, tabnanny.NannyNag, and xdrlib.Error.
+
 - Constants BOM_UTF8, BOM_UTF16, BOM_UTF16_LE, BOM_UTF16_BE,
   BOM_UTF32, BOM_UTF32_LE and BOM_UTF32_BE that represent the Byte
   Order Mark in UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32 encodings for little and