diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8c218b773..5d3ca404d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   md5sum --check now supports the -r format from the corresponding BSD tool.
   This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
 
+  pwd now works also on systems without openat.  On such systems, pwd
+  would fail when run from a directory whose absolute name contained
+  more than PATH_MAX / 3 components.  Also affected due to their use
+  of canonicalize_* functions: df, stat, readlink.
+
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release 8.13 (2011-09-08) [stable]
 
diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
index da1717b7f..f6fe351fc 160000
--- a/gnulib
+++ b/gnulib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit da1717b7f93b77469f980ea5e13178e4e9e7ae09
+Subproject commit f6fe351fc534ae1ccbebb9c61e68771e7ae99c97