diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a1c8b1e8..3c34b6b8 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@ What's new in psycopg 2.6.2
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
 - Report the server response status on errors (such as :ticket:`#281`).
-- Raise NotSupportedError on unhandled server response status
+- Raise `!NotSupportedError` on unhandled server response status
   (:ticket:`#352`).
+- Fixed `!PersistentConnectionPool` on Python 3 (:ticket:`#348`).
 
 
 What's new in psycopg 2.6.1
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@ What's new in psycopg 2.6.1
 - Lists consisting of only `None` are escaped correctly (:ticket:`#285`).
 - Fixed deadlock in multithread programs using OpenSSL (:ticket:`#290`).
 - Correctly unlock the connection after error in flush (:ticket:`#294`).
-- Fixed ``MinTimeLoggingCursor.callproc()`` (:ticket:`#309`).
+- Fixed `!MinTimeLoggingCursor.callproc()` (:ticket:`#309`).
 - Added support for MSVC 2015 compiler (:ticket:`#350`).
 
 
diff --git a/lib/pool.py b/lib/pool.py
index 4f858ab1..8d7c4afb 100644
--- a/lib/pool.py
+++ b/lib/pool.py
@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ class PersistentConnectionPool(AbstractConnectionPool):
 
         # we we'll need the thread module, to determine thread ids, so we
         # import it here and copy it in an instance variable
-        import thread
-        self.__thread = thread
+        import thread as _thread # work around for 2to3 bug - see ticket #348
+        self.__thread = _thread
 
     def getconn(self):
         """Generate thread id and return a connection."""