Adds note about change to news

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/web/news.txt b/web/news.txt
index 9fd7c31b3..af44f91a1 100644
--- a/web/news.txt
+++ b/web/news.txt
@@ -73,7 +73,11 @@ News
     for ``expr`` and ``stmt``. The new names capture the semantics much better
     and most likely  ``expr`` and ``stmt`` will be deprecated in favor of the
     new names.
-
+  - The ``split`` method in module ``re`` has changed. It now handles the case
+    of matches having a length of 0, and empty strings being yielded from the
+    iterator. A notable change might be that a pattern being matched at the
+    beginning and end of a string, will result in an empty string being produced
+    at the start and the end of the iterator.
 
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