diff --git a/doc/NEWS-1.8.0 b/doc/NEWS-1.8.0
index 0c10ad381c..b4445fa59f 100644
--- a/doc/NEWS-1.8.0
+++ b/doc/NEWS-1.8.0
@@ -835,7 +835,3 @@
 : string concatenation
 
   faster by avoiding too frequent realloc(3).
-
-: stack trace
-
-  On non-SystemStackError exception, full stack trace is shown.