diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.4rc1.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.4rc1.rst
index 415acd94b5edbf..c91cc62159fda3 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.4rc1.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.6.4rc1.rst
@@ -1100,9 +1100,6 @@ for code and tests by Guilherme Polo and Cheryl Sabella, respectively.
 
 Make redemo work with Python 3.6 and newer versions.
 
-In Python 3.6, flags like re.DOTALL became members of an enum.IntFlag so
-usages like ``getattr(re, 'DOTALL')`` are invalid.
-
 Also, remove the ``LOCALE`` option since it doesn't work with string
 patterns in Python 3.
 
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0a3.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0a3.rst
index 7de841526cdc57..f8ab97c553eff0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0a3.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/3.7.0a3.rst
@@ -1567,9 +1567,6 @@ and Subversion are no longer used to develop CPython.
 
 Make redemo work with Python 3.6 and newer versions.
 
-In Python 3.6, flags like re.DOTALL became members of an enum.IntFlag so
-usages like ``getattr(re, 'DOTALL')`` are invalid.
-
 Also, remove the ``LOCALE`` option since it doesn't work with string
 patterns in Python 3.