diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -103,6 +103,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- The bz2 module now handles 4GiB+ input buffers correctly.
+
 - Issue #9233: Fix json.loads('{}') to return a dict (instead of a list), when
   _json is not available.