diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #7904: Changes to urllib.parse.urlsplit to handle schemes as defined by
+  RFC3986. Anything before :// is considered a scheme and is followed by an
+  authority (or netloc) and by '/' led path, which is optional.
+
 - Issue #10478: Reentrant calls inside buffered IO objects (for example by
   way of a signal handler) now raise a RuntimeError instead of freezing the
   current process.