diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
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@@ -354,6 +354,12 @@ New, Improved, and Deprecated Modules
 
   (Contributed by Brett Cannon.)
 
+* A new module, :mod:`ipaddr` has been added to the standard library.
+  It provides classes to represent, verify and manipulate IPv4 and IPv6
+  host and network addresses.
+
+  (Contributed by Google, :issue:`3959`.)
+
 
 Optimizations
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