--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,25 @@
 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 4.0:
 ---------------------------------------------------------
 
+ ** A graphical user interface is now the default when running Octave
+    interactively.  The start-up option --no-gui will run the familiar
+    command line interface, and still allows use of the GUI dialogs and
+    qt plotting toolkit.  The option --no-gui-libs runs a minimalist
+    command line interface that does not link with the Qt libraries and
+    uses the fltk toolkit for plotting.
+
+ ** Octave now uses OpenGL graphics with Qt widgets by default.  If OpenGL
+    libraries are not available when Octave is built, gnuplot is used.
+    You may choose to use the fltk or gnuplot toolkit for graphics by
+    executing the command
+
+      graphics_toolkit ("fltk")
+        OR
+      graphics_toolkit ("gnuplot")
+
+    Adding such a command to your ~/.octaverc file will set the default
+    for each session.
+
  ** A new syntax for object oriented programming termed classdef has been
     introduced.  See the manual for more extensive documentation of the
     classdef interface.
@@ -37,18 +56,6 @@
     All three optimizations are disabled if Octave is started with the
     --braindead command line option.
 
- ** For compatibility with Matlab, the "backtrace" warning option is now
-    enabled by default.
-
- ** For compatibility with Matlab, the "ismatrix(x)" function now only checks
-    the dimension of "x". The old behaviour of "ismatrix" is obtained by
-    "isnumeric (x) || islogical (x) || ischar (x)".
-
- ** The nextpow2 function behaviour has been changed for vector inputs.
-    Instead of computing `nextpow2 (length (x))', it will now compute
-    nextpow2() for each element of the input.  Not only is this change
-    Matlab compatible, it also prevents bugs for "vectors" of length 1.
-
  ** The preference
 
       do_braindead_shortcircuit_evaluation
@@ -66,6 +73,18 @@
     is now set to "on" by default instead of "error" by default and "on"
     for --traditional.
 
+ ** The "backtrace" warning option is now enabled by default.  This change
+    was made for Matlab compatability.
+
+ ** For compatibility with Matlab, the "ismatrix (x)" function now only checks
+    the dimension of "x".  The old behaviour of "ismatrix" is obtained by
+    "isnumeric (x) || islogical (x) || ischar (x)".
+
+ ** The nextpow2 function behaviour has been changed for vector inputs.
+    Instead of computing `nextpow2 (length (x))', it will now compute
+    nextpow2 for each element of the input.  This change is Matlab compatible,
+    and also prevents bugs for "vectors" of length 1.
+
  ** polyeig now returns a row vector of eigenvalues rather than a matrix
     with the eigenvalues on the diagonal.  This change was made for Matlab
     compatibility.
@@ -120,7 +139,7 @@
         integer format specifier.
 
     There is still one difference:  Matlab switches to '%e' and Octave
-    is currently switching to '%g'.
+    switches to '%g'.
 
  ** The archive family of functions (bzip2, gzip, zip, tar) and their
     unpacking routines (bunzip2, gunzip, unzip, untar, unpack) have
@@ -128,6 +147,9 @@
     in the same directory as the archive (on unpack) or as the original
     files (on archiving).
 
+ ** Qt and FLTK graphics toolkits now support offscreen rendering on Linux.
+    In other words, print will work even when the figure visibility is "off".
+
  ** Z-order stacking issues with patches, grid lines, and line object
     plot markers for on screen display and printing have all been resolved.
     For 2-D plots the axis grid lines can be placed on top of the plot
@@ -159,6 +181,17 @@
     previous separate warning IDs "Octave:fopen-file-in-path",
     "Octave:load-file-in-path", and "Octave:md5sum-file-in-path".
 
+ ** The warning ID Octave:singular-matrix-div has been replaced by
+    Octave:nearly-singular-matrix and Octave:singular-matrix.
+
+ ** The warning ID Octave:matlab-incompatible has been replaced by
+    Octave:language-extension to better reflect its meaning.
+
+ ** The warning ID Octave:broadcast has been removed.  Instead automatic
+    broadcasting will throw an Octave:language-extension warning.  This
+    warning ID is used for broadcasting as well as other features not
+    available in Matlab.
+
  ** Other new functions added in 4.0:
 
       annotation
@@ -174,15 +207,21 @@
       im2frame
       isbanded
       isdiag
+      isstudent
       istril
       istriu
       javachk
+      jit_failcnt
       linkaxes
       lscov
+      metaclass
       numfields
+      open
       ordschur
+      pan
       qmr
       rotate
+      rotate3d
       sylvester
       unsetenv
       validateattributes
@@ -217,6 +256,7 @@
       octave_tmp_file_name | tempname
       playaudio            | audioplayer
       saveaudio            | audiowrite
+      strmatch             | strncmp or strcmp or regexp
       syl                  | sylvester
       usage                | print_usage
 
@@ -265,16 +305,6 @@
     been removed from Octave 4.0.  Replacement classes are
     <octave_map> (struct array) or <octave_scalar_map> for a single structure.
 
- ** The warning ID Octave:singular-matrix-div has been replaced by
-    Octave:nearly-singular-matrix and Octave:singular-matrix.
-
- ** The warning ID Octave:matlab-incompatible has been replaced by
-    Octave:language-extension to better reflect its meaning.
-
- ** The warning ID Octave:broadcast has been removed.  Instead automatic
-    broadcasting will throw an Octave:language-extension warning, together
-    with other features not available in Matlab.
-
  ** The configure option --enable-octave-allocator has been removed.
     The internal class <octave_allocator> declared in oct-alloc.h has
     been removed.  The header remains, but is deprecated.  The macros to
@@ -282,9 +312,6 @@
     and DEFINE_OCTAVE_ALLOCATOR2) are now unconditionally defined to be
     empty.
 
- ** Qt and FLTK graphics toolkit now support offscreen rendering,
-    i.e., print will work when figure visibility is off.
-
  ** Octave now has OpenMP enabled by default if the system provides a
     working OpenMP implementation.  This allows oct-file modules to take
     advantage of OpenMP if desired.  This can be disabled when building