diff --git a/news/2 Fixes/677.md b/news/2 Fixes/677.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8c55a40a7539
--- /dev/null
+++ b/news/2 Fixes/677.md	
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Ensure empty paths do not get added into `sys.path` by the Jedi language server. (this was fixed in the previous release in [#1471](https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-python/pull/1471))