diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 59da415849e829f6e3c6d6e0b60ff415baf2ef9c..7004a2c037e5b3dc196616cccf7df6a39b071a9f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Job suspend now sends SIGTSTP, sleep(1), sends SIGSTOP for better
     MPI support.
  -- Plug a bunch of memory leaks in various places.
+ -- Bluegene - before assigning a job to a block the plugin will check the bps
+    to make sure they aren't in error state.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 1.1.0-pre6
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