diff --git a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
index b14ea722ffa287..aee444b1388be5 100644
--- a/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/sqlite3.rst
@@ -627,6 +627,18 @@ Cursor Objects
 
       It is set for ``SELECT`` statements without any matching rows as well.
 
+   .. attribute:: connection
+
+      This read-only attribute provides the SQLite database :class:`Connection`
+      used by the :class:`Cursor` object.  A :class:`Cursor` object created by
+      calling :meth:`con.cursor() <Connection.cursor>` will have a
+      :attr:`connection` attribute that refers to *con*::
+
+         >>> con = sqlite3.connect(":memory:")
+         >>> cur = con.cursor()
+         >>> cur.connection == con
+         True
+
 .. _sqlite3-row-objects:
 
 Row Objects
diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 27e5767e8c9ccb..e67f6d1ef0d087 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1178,6 +1178,7 @@ Burton Radons
 Abhilash Raj
 Shorya Raj
 Jeff Ramnani
+Varpu Rantala
 Brodie Rao
 Senko Rasic
 Antti Rasinen