2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index f5c6725..d9e3f33 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -257,6 +257,7 @@ Greg Ewing
 Martijn Faassen
 Andreas Faerber
 Bill Fancher
+Troy J. Farrell
 Mark Favas
 Niels Ferguson
 Sebastian Fernandez
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index d860a7a..3f8d115 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #5027: The standard ``xml`` namespace is now understood by
+  xml.sax.saxutils.XMLGenerator as being bound to
+  http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace.  Patch by Troy J. Farrell.
+
 - Issue #5975: Add csv.unix_dialect class.
 
 - Issue #7761: telnetlib.interact failures on Windows fixed.