diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index f3a18d965dc..dc2ba598859 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -805,6 +805,13 @@ Extension Modules
 
 - Bug #1721309: prevent bsddb module from freeing random memory.
 
+- Bug #1233: fix bsddb.dbshelve.DBShelf append method to work as
+  intended for RECNO databases.
+
+- Fix bsddb.dbtables: Don't randomly corrupt newly inserted rows by
+  picking a rowid string with null bytes in it.  Such rows could not
+  later be deleted, modified or individually selected.
+
 - Bug #1686475: Support stat'ing open files on Windows again.
 
 - Patch #1185447: binascii.b2a_qp() now correctly quotes binary characters