diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index fafe4179f7d..774b7afbc3b 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -336,6 +336,10 @@ Core and builtins
 - Fixed bug #521782: when a file was in non-blocking mode, file.read()
   could silently lose data or wrongly throw an unknown error.
 
+- The sq_repeat, sq_inplace_repeat, sq_concat and sq_inplace_concat
+  slots are now always tried after trying the corresponding nb_* slots.
+  This fixes a number of minor bugs (see bug #624807).
+
 Extension modules
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