diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index cb828f01d07..c59a15a6122 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ Core and builtins
 Library
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+- Taught setup.py how to locate Berkeley DB on Macs using MacPorts.
+
 - Added heapq.merge() for merging sorted input streams.
 
 - Added collections.NamedTuple() for assigning field names to tuples.