2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index db451d7..d345e54 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -215,6 +215,7 @@ Ned Deily
 Vincent Delft
 Arnaud Delobelle
 Erik Demaine
+John Dennis
 Roger Dev
 Raghuram Devarakonda
 Caleb Deveraux
@@ -875,6 +876,7 @@ Mikhail Terekhov
 Tobias Thelen
 James Thomas
 Robin Thomas
+Stephen Thorne
 Jeremy Thurgood
 Eric Tiedemann
 July Tikhonov
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ef432e0..aab5e1a 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -41,6 +41,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issues #11104, #8688: Fix the behavior of distutils' sdist command with
+  manually-maintained MANIFEST files.
+
 - Issue #12464: tempfile.TemporaryDirectory.cleanup() should not follow
   symlinks: fix it. Patch by Petri Lehtinen.