#9054: fix crash when using pyexpat with a system expat lib version 2.0.1.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@
 Extensions
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+- Issue #9054: Fix a crash occurring when using the pyexpat module
+  with expat version 2.0.1.
+
 - Issue #5355: Provide mappings from Expat error numbers to string
   descriptions and backwards, in order to actually make it possible
   to analyze error codes provided by ExpatError.