From 691c5b7defcb5164fbb1320e7d22b55a8694179e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Daly <nhdaly@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2018 22:51:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add NEWS entry for #28156: add `splitpath(p)`

---
 NEWS.md | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 1c69bdfd8722c..33bbe94b1d737 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Language changes
 Standard Library Changes
 ------------------------
 
+  * New `splitpath(p::String)` function added, which is the opposite of `joinpath(parts...)`: it splits a filepath into its components ([#28156]).
 
 Compiler/Runtime improvements
 -----------------------------
@@ -24,3 +25,4 @@ Deprecated or removed
 
 <!--- generated by NEWS-update.jl: -->
 [#29440]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/29440
+[#28156]: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/28156