diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index c6310fd92..05ced6a85 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -110,5 +110,6 @@ Authors@R: c(
   person("Manmita", "Das",         role="ctb"),
   person("Tarun", "Thammisetty",   role="ctb"),
   person("Marco", "Colombo",       role="ctb", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-6672-0623")),
+  person("Tim", "Taylor",          role="ctb", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8587-7113")),
   NULL
   )
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 5d2c35aa9..5c2dd834f 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -112,6 +112,8 @@
 
 10. `fwrite()` returns a clearer error message when `na = data.frame()` is used, [#7866](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/7866). Thanks @mcol for the report and the fix.
 
+11. Handled OpenMP deprecation of `master` construct, [#7882](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/pull/7882). Thanks @TimTaylor for the PR.
+
 ## data.table [v1.18.4](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/milestone/45) (6 May 2026)
 
 ### BUG FIXES