diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -182,6 +182,24 @@ Library
 - Issue #23572: Fixed functools.singledispatch on classes with falsy
   metaclasses.  Patch by Ethan Furman.
 
+IDLE
+----
+
+- Issue #25199: Idle: add synchronization comments for future maintainers.
+
+- Issue #16893: Replace help.txt with idle.html for Idle doc display.
+  The new idlelib/idle.html is copied from Doc/build/html/idle.html.
+  It looks better than help.txt and will better document Idle as released.
+  The tkinter html viewer that works for this file was written by Rose Roseman.
+  The now unused EditorWindow.HelpDialog class and helt.txt file are deprecated.
+
+- Issue #24199: Deprecate unused idlelib.idlever with possible removal in 3.6.
+
+- Issue #24782: In Idle extension config dialog, replace tabs with sorted list.
+  Patch by Mark Roseman.
+
+- Issue #24790: Remove extraneous code (which also create 2 & 3 conflicts).
+
 Documentation
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