--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
     .-=       .^=
 
     This makes the bsxfun function mostly redundant except for
-    user-defined functions. A new section in the manual has been written
+    user-defined functions.  A new section in the manual has been written
     to explain and clarify this change.
 
  ** Octave now features a profiler, thanks to the work of Daniel Kraft
@@ -112,13 +112,16 @@
     uicontextmenu   uiresume       waitfor
     uicontrol       uitoggletool
 
-    Except uiwait and uiresume, the uiXXX functions are not supported on
+    The uiXXX functions above are experimental.
+
+    Except for uiwait and uiresume, the uiXXX functions are not supported on
     the FLTK backend.
 
-    The gnuplot backend does not support any of the uiXXX functions as well
-    as the waitfor function.
+    The gnuplot backend does not support any of the uiXXX functions nor
+    the waitfor function.
 
  ** New keyword parfor
+
     parfor (parallel for loop) is now recognized as a valid keyword.
     Implementation, however, is still mapped to an ordinary for loop.