diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 6cd3dcb12d1..e17cfdfc27d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ Library
 - decimal.py now only uses signals in the spec.  The other conditions are
   no longer part of the public API.
 
+- codecs module now has two new generic APIs: encode() and decode()
+  which don't restrict the return types (unlike the unicode and
+  string methods of the same name).
+
 Tools/Demos
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