#15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML elements "meta" and "param".
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 29e2c19..5113ec0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@
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+- Issue #15970: xml.etree.ElementTree now serializes correctly the empty HTML
+  elements 'meta' and 'param'.
+
 - Issue #15842: the SocketIO.{readable,writable,seekable} methods now
   raise ValueError when the file-like object is closed.  Patch by Alessandro
   Moura.