diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9d5b1445044..4675e5f709d 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -114,6 +114,10 @@ Core and builtins
   When comparing containers with cyclic references to themselves it
   will now just hit the recursion limit.  See SF patch 825639.
 
+- str and unicode builtin types now have s.rsplit() method that is
+  same as s.split() except that it scans the string from the end
+  working forward.  See SF feature request 801847.
+
 Extension modules
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