diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index add3bbbf23c..b61002619cb 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -208,6 +208,9 @@ Extension Modules
 Library
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+- Patch #1681153: the wave module now closes a file object it opened if
+  initialization failed.
+
 - Bug #767111: fix long-standing bug in urllib which caused an
   AttributeError instead of an IOError when the server's response didn't
   contain a valid HTTP status line.