diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
index 2b7cbaa48531a9..40c1592af4d5c6 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.9.rst
@@ -892,6 +892,11 @@ Removed
   :func:`asyncio.current_task` and :func:`asyncio.all_tasks` instead.
   (Contributed by Rémi Lapeyre in :issue:`40967`)
 
+* The ``unescape()`` method in the :class:`html.parser.HTMLParser` class
+  has been removed (it was deprecated since Python 3.4).  :func:`html.unescape`
+  should be used for converting character references to the corresponding
+  unicode characters.
+
 
 Porting to Python 3.9
 =====================