--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     http://forge.scilab.org/index.php/p/arpack-ng
 
  ** Many of Octave's binary operators (.*, .^, +, -, ...) now perform
-    automatic broadcasting for array operations that allows you to use
+    automatic broadcasting for array operations which allows you to use
     operator notation instead of calling bsxfun or expanding arrays (and
     unnecessarily wasting memory) with repmat or similar idioms.  For
     example, to scale the columns of a matrix by the elements of a row
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@
       rem
       xor
 
-    additionally, since the A op= B assginment operators are equivalent
+    additionally, since the A op= B assignment operators are equivalent
     to A = A op B, the following operators are also affected:
 
       +=  -=  .+=  .-=  .*=  ./=  .\=  .^=  .**=  &=  |=
@@ -112,8 +112,8 @@
     scripts.
 
     negative binomial function has been extended to real, non-integer
-    inputs.  The discrete_inv fucntion now returns v(1) for 0 instead of
-    NaN.  The nbincdf fucntion has bbeen recoded to use a closed form
+    inputs.  The discrete_inv function now returns v(1) for 0 instead of
+    NaN.  The nbincdf function has been recoded to use a closed form
     solution with betainc.
 
  ** strread, textscan, and textread have been completely revamped.
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@
     string now supported.
 
     datestr: Numerical formats 21, 22, 29 changed to match Matlab.
-             Now accepts cellstr inputs.
+             Now accepts cellstr input.
 
  ** The following warning IDs have been removed:
 
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@
     The uiXXX functions above are experimental.
 
     Except for uiwait and uiresume, the uiXXX functions are not
-    supported with the the FLTK+OpenGL graphics toolkit.
+    supported with the FLTK+OpenGL graphics toolkit.
 
     The gnuplot graphics toolkit does not support any of the uiXXX
     functions nor the waitfor function.
@@ -248,6 +248,10 @@
       __error_text__     studentize
       error_text         sylvester_matrix
 
+ ** The following functions have been modified for Matlab compatibility:
+
+      randperm
+
 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4.3:
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