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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 4c14e20e157..d897009e26c 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -329,6 +329,9 @@ GnuTLS encryption functions if possible.
 
 ** JSON
 
+*** 'json-encode-string' now only escapes the characters it has to.
+Which means that the encoded strings can contain non-ASCII characters.
+
 *** 'json-pretty-print' and 'json-pretty-print-buffer' now maintain
 the ordering of object keys by default.