diff --git a/old/textutils/NEWS b/old/textutils/NEWS
index fd790d0db..2cc7e07c4 100644
--- a/old/textutils/NEWS
+++ b/old/textutils/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 User-visible changes in release 1.14
 * join accepts POSIX `-o 0' field specifier.
+* tr 'a[b*512]' '[a*]' terminates
+* tr '[:*3][:digit:]' 'a-m' and tr 'a[=*2][=c=]' 'xyyz' no longer fail
+* special characters in tr's string1 and string2 may be escaped with backslash
 User-visible changes in release 1.13
 * md5sum: with --check, distinguish between open/read failure and bad checksum
 * md5sum: remove -h, -s, -v short options