diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 135c9f245f..0507950048 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ Core and builtins
   great many cyclic structures involving frames.  Reported on
   SourceForge as bug 543148.
 
+- Complex numbers supported divmod() and the // and % operators, but
+  these make no sense.  Since this was documented, they're being
+  deprecated now.
+
 - String methods lstrip(), rstrip() and strip() now take an optional
   argument that specifies the characters to strip.  For example,
   "Foo!!!?!?!?".rstrip("?!") -> "Foo". In addition, "200L".strip("L")