diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
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+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@ Fixed bugs:
    will be left untouched.
    Bugzilla Report 66164
 
+ * parsing tar entries with multiple NUL bytes in their name would
+   include garbage bytes as the name included all bytes up to the last
+   NUL rather than the first.
+   Github Pull Request #194
+
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