diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7451255aa285f322e4f1ee1792d57b00cf487106..b2ed5c67433d33e4bbdfb5f779c5583215f76847 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Latest accounting patches from Riebs/HP, retry communications.
  -- Added srun option --kill-on-bad-exit from Holmes/HP.
  -- Support large (64-bit address) log files where possible.
+ -- Fix problem of signals being delivered twice to tasks.  Note that as
+    part of the fix the slurmd session manger no longer calls setsid to
+    create a new session.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre9
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