diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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--- a/Misc/NEWS
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@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Projected release date: 2013-10-20
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
+- Issue #19219: Speed up marshal.loads(), and make pyc files slightly
+  (5% to 10%) smaller.
+
 - Issue #19221: Upgrade Unicode database to version 6.3.0.
 
 - Issue #16742: The result of the C callback PyOS_ReadlineFunctionPointer must