diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 1c2721d56..5c78ad10c 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Fixed bugs:
    when applied to big outputs.
    Bugzilla Report 57341
 
- * removed spurious warning about inclosed ZipFiles when reading the
+ * removed spurious warning about unclosed ZipFiles when reading the
    archive failed.
    Port of https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/COMPRESS-297