diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index b517b978cfc..a5ea3beb329 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -364,6 +364,11 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #6838: Use a list to accumulate the value instead of
+  repeatedly concatenating strings in httplib's
+  HTTPResponse._read_chunked providing a significant speed increase
+  when downloading large files servend with a Transfer-Encoding of 'chunked'.
+
 - Issue #5275: In Cookie's Cookie.load(), properly handle non-string arguments
   as documented.