diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index dc99ff799a5..77785a57716 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
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+- The distutils version has been changed to 2.5.0. The change to
+  keep it programmatically in sync with the Python version running
+  the code (introduced in 2.5b3) has been reverted. It will continue
+  to be maintained manually as static string literal.
+
 - If a the Python part of a ctypes callback function returns None,
   and this cannot be converted to the required C type, an exception is
   printed with PyErr_WriteUnraisable.  Before this change, the C