diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 531bbb8f133..2f1ac3283c5 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue 6285: IDLE no longer crashes on missing help file; patch by Scott David
+  Daniels.
+
 - Fix collections.OrderedDict.setdefault() so that it works in
   subclasses that define __missing__().