diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index efb679159ac..4c181993669 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ What's New in Python 3.2 Alpha 3?
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #8670: ctypes.c_wchar supports non-BMP characters with 32 bits wchar_t.
+
 - Issue #8670: PyUnicode_AsWideChar() and PyUnicode_AsWideCharString() replace
   UTF-16 surrogate pairs by single non-BMP characters for 16 bits Py_UNICODE
   and 32 bits wchar_t (eg. Linux in narrow build).