Here's the updated news item, which I will be committing very shortly.  
Please note that there is absolutely no version of portage that was not in 
package.mask that would have problems with an EAPI-2 atom in a news item 
because EAPI-2 support was added to portage at the same time as news item 
support (they both appeared in portage 2.1.6).

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Jonathan Callen