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@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ What's new in psycopg 2.8.4
 - Don't swallow keyboard interrupts on connect when a password is specified
   in the connection string (:ticket:`#898`).
 - Fixed int overflow for large values in `~psycopg2.extensions.Column.table_oid`
-  and `~psycopg2.extensions.Column.type_code` (:ticket:`961).
+  and `~psycopg2.extensions.Column.type_code` (:ticket:`961`).
+- Fixed building with Python 3.8 (:ticket:`854`).
 
 
 What's new in psycopg 2.8.3