diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a8d1488e7138fa740a89a301553cabf02ce170a0..06d59042973448df20ca04c13bb06c92a0bfb71f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Make slurmctld's working directory be same as SlurmctldLogFile (if any),
     otherwise StateSaveDir (which is likely a shared directory, possibly 
     making core file identification more difficult).
+ -- Fix bug in switch/federation that results in the backup controller
+    aborting if it receives an epilog-complete message.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 1.2.0-pre13
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