diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ce643ce8dd2..9193368d707 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -1611,6 +1611,9 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
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+- Fix #1693149.  Now you can pass several modules separated by
+  comma to trace.py in the same --ignore-module option. 
+
 - Correction of patch #1455898: In the mbcs decoder, set final=False
   for stream decoder, but final=True for the decode function.