diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -191,6 +191,10 @@ Library
 
 - Patch #1470846: fix urllib2 ProxyBasicAuthHandler.
 
+- Bug #1472827: correctly escape newlines and tabs in attribute values in
+  the saxutils.XMLGenerator class.
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