diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ae53fcd..1613c8b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -166,6 +166,8 @@
 Library
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+- Issue #5052: make Distutils compatible with 2.3 again.
+
 - Deprecated methods of symtable.Symbol have been removed: is_keywordarg(),
   is_vararg(), and is_in_tuple().