2 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 269518c..88b67e0 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -878,6 +878,7 @@ Michael Scharf
 Andreas Schawo
 Neil Schemenauer
 David Scherer
+Hynek Schlawack
 Bob Schmertz
 Gregor Schmid
 Ralf Schmitt
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 98889a5..82f9d86 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -419,6 +419,9 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #12708: Add starmap() and starmap_async() methods (similar to
+  itertools.starmap()) to multiprocessing.Pool.  Patch by Hynek Schlawack.
+
 - Issue #1785: Fix inspect and pydoc with misbehaving descriptors.
 
 - Issue #13637: "a2b" functions in the binascii module now accept ASCII-only