diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index e45bd1e19b3..261981ddd4f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ Extension Modules
 - Bug #1512695: cPickle.loads could crash if it was interrupted with
   a KeyboardInterrupt.
 
+- Bug #1296433: parsing XML with a non-default encoding and
+  a CharacterDataHandler could crash the interpreter in pyexpat.
+
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