diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 410158aa409..b8d1dee65ea 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -605,6 +605,7 @@ Anders Qvist
 Burton Radons
 Brodie Rao
 Antti Rasinen
+Sridhar Ratnakumar
 Eric Raymond
 Edward K. Ream
 Chris Rebert
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9040939989e..873f86a480c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #8549: Fix compiling the _ssl extension under AIX.  Patch by
+  Sridhar Ratnakumar.
+
 - Issue #8391: os.execvpe() and os.getenv() supports unicode with surrogates
   and bytes strings for environment keys and values, and use
   sys.getfilesystemencoding() instead of sys.getdefautltencoding()
diff --git a/Modules/_ssl.c b/Modules/_ssl.c
index c21ac5d380a..8b21abf25dd 100644
--- a/Modules/_ssl.c
+++ b/Modules/_ssl.c
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ enum py_ssl_version {
 	PY_SSL_VERSION_SSL2,
 	PY_SSL_VERSION_SSL3,
 	PY_SSL_VERSION_SSL23,
-	PY_SSL_VERSION_TLS1,
+	PY_SSL_VERSION_TLS1
 };
 
 /* Include symbols from _socket module */