diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d9af0c4f6d9baf7561ade7cc98f563e865dfd42a..39d3da4aee350ce04a616e1f0342d02cbb2e60d2 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ Core and Builtins
 - Issue #9756: When calling a method descriptor or a slot wrapper descriptor,
   the check of the object type doesn't read the __class__ attribute anymore.
   Fix a crash if a class override its __class__ attribute (e.g. a proxy of the
-  str type).
+  str type). Patch written by Andreas Stührk.
 
 - Issue #10517: After fork(), reinitialize the TLS used by the PyGILState_*
   APIs, to avoid a crash with the pthread implementation in RHEL 5.  Patch