diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ed4b2b939..107674e0d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   ls now refuses to generate time stamps containing more than 1000 bytes, to
   foil potential denial-of-service attacks on hosts with very large stacks.
 
+  "mkdir -m =+x dir" no longer ignores the umask when evaluating "+x",
+  and similarly for mkfifo and mknod.
+
   "pr -D FORMAT" now accepts the same formats that "date +FORMAT" does.
 
   test now detects integer overflow when evaluating large integers,