diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index aad83fd..be3a362 100644
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@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@
 Core and builtins
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+- Issue 1704621: Fix segfaults in list_repeat() and list_inplace_repeat().
+
 - Issue #1147: Generators were not raising a DeprecationWarning when a string
   was passed into throw().