diff --git a/old/sh-utils/NEWS b/old/sh-utils/NEWS
index 2e0c0db75..0c358ae1b 100644
--- a/old/sh-utils/NEWS
+++ b/old/sh-utils/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 Changes in release 2.1
  [2.0.12]
+* 'expr' now uses the LC_COLLATE locale for string comparison, as per POSIX.
 * 'expr' now requires '+' rather than 'quote' to quote tokens;
     this removes an incompatibility with POSIX.
 * date -d 'last friday' would print a date/time that was one hour off