diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e8efa0e81cb..f276cb3a138 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ Library
 - Issue #11666: let help() display named tuple attributes and methods
   that start with a leading underscore.
 
+- Issue #11662: Make urllib and urllib2 ignore redirections if the
+  scheme is not HTTP, HTTPS or FTP (CVE-2011-1521).
+
 - Issue #5537: Fix time2isoz() and time2netscape() functions of
   httplib.cookiejar for expiration year greater than 2038 on 32-bit systems.