--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
 
       on the gnuplot development list.
 
+
  ** The way Octave handles search paths has changed.  Instead of
     setting the built-in variable LOADPATH, you must use addpath,
     rmpath, or path to manipulate the function search path.  These
@@ -174,13 +175,26 @@
 
       [status, output] = system (cmd);
 
+
+ ** For compatibility with Matlab, the output of Octave's fsolve
+    function has been changed from
+
+      [x, info, msg] = fsolve (...);
+
+    to
+
+      [x, fval, info] = fsolve (...);
+
+
  ** For compatibility with Matlab, normcdf, norminv, normpdf, and
     normrnd have been modified to compute distributions using the
     standard deviation instead of the variance.
 
+
  ** For compatibility with Matlab, gamcdf, gaminv, gampdf, gamrnd,
     expcdf, expinv, exppdf and exprnd have been modified to compute 
     the distributions using the standard scale factor rather than
     one over the scale factor.
 
+
 See NEWS.2 for old news.