diff --git a/newsfragments/XXX.misc b/newsfragments/XXX.misc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3eefecb41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/XXX.misc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix non-inclusion of cstdint in dxtbx sources.
diff --git a/src/dxtbx/boost_python/compression.cc b/src/dxtbx/boost_python/compression.cc
index 6957d1bd1..0e92e492e 100644
--- a/src/dxtbx/boost_python/compression.cc
+++ b/src/dxtbx/boost_python/compression.cc
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #include "compression.h"
 #include "dxtbx/error.h"
 #include <assert.h>
+#include <cstdint>
 
 typedef union {
   char b[2];