diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5ff84ed5..4b2b1714 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-* Sat Feb 14 2026 Satoru SATOH <satoru.satoh@gmail.com> - 0.15.0-1
+* Mon Feb 16 2026 Satoru SATOH <satoru.satoh@gmail.com> - 0.15.0-1
 - fix/change: migrate test cases from unittest.TestCase to pytest based with
   new test data loader (#173)
 - fix: enable all rules by ruff linter by default
@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@
 - fix: workaround to suppress a flake8-bugbear error
 - fix: workaround to suppress a mypy error
 - fix: workaround to suppress errors only happen with tomllib
+- fix: remove rpm related hack as bdist_rpm was deprecated in the latest setuptools
+- fix: [tox] add missing dependencies in srpm target
+- fix: [rpm] add hack to avoid false-positive errors in pyproject.toml
 - change: drop python 3.8.x support
 - change: enable all ruff rules with minimal exceptions
 - change: add new requirements.txt to list tox-uv
@@ -97,6 +100,7 @@
 - refactor: simplify test cases for anyconfig.backend.base.*Mixin.*open with
   pytest.mark.parametrize
 - enhancement: add azure-pipelines.yml for Azure Pipelines
+- enhancement: add a script to build SRPM fom src dist and pkg/package.spec.in
 
 * Sun Jan 14 2024 Satoru SATOH <satoru.satoh@gmail.com> - 0.14.0-1
 - change: drop the support py37 and add py311
diff --git a/src/anyconfig/backend/xml/etree.py b/src/anyconfig/backend/xml/etree.py
index e2565a01..fb6f28cb 100644
--- a/src/anyconfig/backend/xml/etree.py
+++ b/src/anyconfig/backend/xml/etree.py
@@ -554,7 +554,7 @@ class Parser(base.Parser, base.ToStreamDumperMixin):
     _open_write_mode: typing.ClassVar[str] = "wb"
 
     def load_from_string(
-        self, content: typing.AnyStr, container: GenDicType,
+        self, content: str | bytes, container: GenDicType,
         **opts: typing.Any,
     ) -> DicType:
         """Load config from XML snippet (a string 'content').