2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 297dcca..36778ff 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -270,6 +270,7 @@ Carey Evans
 Tim Everett
 Paul Everitt
 David Everly
+Daniel Evers
 Winston Ewert
 Greg Ewing
 Martijn Faassen
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2b0529e..6b9da84 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -143,6 +143,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #8498: In socket.accept(), allow to specify 0 as a backlog value in
+  order to accept exactly one connection.  Patch by Daniel Evers.
+
 - Issue #12011: signal.signal() and signal.siginterrupt() raise an OSError,
   instead of a RuntimeError: OSError has an errno attribute.