diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 2669c9052..9fd0fadc8 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
 
 * Removed launcher classes from nodeps jar.
 
-* <classconstants> filter reader uses ISO-8879-1 encoding to read
+* <classconstants> filter reader uses ISO-8859-1 encoding to read
   the java class file. Bugzilla report 33604.
 
 * Defer reference process. Bugzilla 36955, 34458, 37688.