Fixed issue #1973: bytes.fromhex('') raises SystemError
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a2dbee4..7956e9c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 Core and Builtins
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+- Issue #1973: bytes.fromhex('') raises SystemError
+
 - Issue #1969: split and rsplit in bytearray are inconsistent
 
 - map() and itertools.imap() no longer accept None for the first argument.