diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 268a9bb139a..4efa003eba7 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -273,6 +273,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
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+- Issue #1309567: Fix linecache behavior of stripping subdirectories when
+  looking for files given by a relative filename.
+
 - Issue #5692: In :class:`zipfile.Zipfile`, fix wrong path calculation when
   extracting a file to the root directory.