2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index b5dccde4fd..847d1d1208 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -529,6 +529,7 @@ Pablo Mouzo
 Sjoerd Mullender
 Sape Mullender
 Michael Muller
+Neil Muller
 R. David Murray
 Piotr Meyer
 John Nagle
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 9d2b7cf083..e544868c22 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -242,6 +242,11 @@ C-API
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #2746: Don't escape ampersands and angle brackets ("&", "<", ">")
+  in XML processing instructions and comments.  These raw characters are
+  allowed by the XML specification, and are necessary when outputting e.g.
+  PHP code in a processing instruction.  Patch by Neil Muller.
+
 - Issue #6233: ElementTree failed converting unicode characters to XML
   entities when they could't be represented in the requested output
   encoding.  Patch by Jerry Chen.