diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 * `env -u SOME_ALREADY_UNSET_VARIABLE' no longer dumps core on non-glibc systems
 * fmt now diagnose invalid obsolescent width specifications like `-72x'
 * fmt now exits nonzero when unable to open an input file
+* rm now works around Darwin6.5's broken readdir function;  before `rm -rf DIR'
+  would fail to remove all files in DIR if there were more than 338.
 * tail's byte and line counts are no longer limited to OFF_T_MAX.
   Now the limit is UINTMAX_MAX (usually 2^64).
 * tsort now fails when given an odd number of input tokens.