diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
index 31ea0d1458195cc..eaa3f5b79f05658 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.8.rst
@@ -614,6 +614,11 @@ Changes in the Python API
   specialized methods like :meth:`~tkinter.ttk.Treeview.selection_set` for
   changing the selection.  (Contributed by Serhiy Storchaka in :issue:`31508`.)
 
+* The :meth:`writexml`, :meth:`toxml` and :meth:`toprettyxml` methods of the
+  :mod:`xml.dom.minidom` module, and :mod:`xml.etree` now preserve the attribute
+  order specified by the user.
+  (Contributed by Diego Rojas and Raymond Hettinger in :issue:`34160`.)
+
 * A :mod:`dbm.dumb` database opened with flags ``'r'`` is now read-only.
   :func:`dbm.dumb.open` with flags ``'r'`` and ``'w'`` no longer creates
   a database if it does not exist.
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 2026852db1a1121..9cddcb3a871f70d 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1847,3 +1847,4 @@ Doug Zongker
 Peter Åstrand
 Zheao Li
 Carsten Klein
+Diego Rojas