2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 4effde3..0f92165 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -256,6 +256,7 @@ Hans Eckardt
 Rodolpho Eckhardt
 Grant Edwards
 John Ehresman
+Tal Einat
 Eric Eisner
 Andrew Eland
 Julien Élie
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 8640d70..91fae45 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -90,6 +90,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #8641: Update IDLE 3 syntax coloring to recognize b".." and not u"..".
+  Patch by Tal Einat.
+
 - tarfile.py: Correctly detect bzip2 compressed streams with blocksizes
   other than 900k.