From e6ff84cfa3e3a927d5271ef0a3849be217354c16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Bezanson <jeff.bezanson@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 14:27:07 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] add news for #26858 and #26859 [ci skip]

---
 NEWS.md | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 8f56039065a37..93d446f42874e 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -459,6 +459,12 @@ This section lists changes that do not have deprecation warnings.
   * `parse(::Type, ::Char)` now uses a default base of 10, like other number parsing
     methods, instead of 36 ([#26576]).
 
+  * `isequal` for `Ptr`s now compares element types; `==` still compares only addresses
+    ([#26858]).
+
+  * `widen` on 8- and 16-bit integer types now widens to the platform word size (`Int`)
+    instead of to a 32-bit type ([#26859]).
+
 Library improvements
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