diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 3bdefb512..50092e398 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -49,3 +49,4 @@ Tom Viner
 Dave Hunt
 Charles Cloud
 Eduardo Schettino
+Florian Bruhin
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index f0124722d..936c94711 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@
   the test.  In all cases you get back a RunResult but the inprocess
   one will also have a "reprec" attribute with the recorded events/reports.
 
+- fix monkeypatch.setattr("x.y", raising=False) to actually not raise
+  if "y" is not a pre-existing attribute. Thanks Florian Bruhin.
+
  
 2.7.1 (compared to 2.7.0)
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