diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
index 7be9a501f53192..f1f023038abe1c 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.11.rst
@@ -609,6 +609,10 @@ hashlib
   OpenSSL support.
   (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :issue:`47098`.)
 
+* Add :func:`hashlib.file_digest`, a helper function for efficient hashing
+  of files or file-like objects.
+  (Contributed by Christian Heimes in :gh:`89313`.)
+
 IDLE and idlelib
 ----------------