diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 810614da533..fdcd7dc09b5 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1770,6 +1770,8 @@ recognized.
 
 ** GDB-Script-mode is used for files like .gdbinit.
 
+** The new python.el package is used to edit Python and Jython programs.
+
 ** The TCL package tcl-mode.el was replaced by tcl.el.
 This was actually done in Emacs-21.1, and was not documented.