#8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now raises an error.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ed35c82..1af684c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #8401: assigning an int to a bytearray slice (e.g. b[3:4] = 5) now
+  raises an error.
+
 - Issue #16345: Fix an infinite loop when ``fromkeys`` on a dict subclass
   received a nonempty dict from the constructor.