diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 632c85c..27bd691 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1655,6 +1655,7 @@
 Cheng Zhang
 Kai Zhu
 Tarek Ziadé
+Jelle Zijlstra
 Gennadiy Zlobin
 Doug Zongker
 Peter Åstrand
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 71dbb16..d81a374 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #27238: Got rid of bare excepts in the turtle module.  Original patch
+  by Jelle Zijlstra.
+
 - Issue #27122: When an exception is raised within the context being managed
   by a contextlib.ExitStack() and one of the exit stack generators
   catches and raises it in a chain, do not re-raise the original exception