diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 01f01b5e57b526583729cde3494c77c762b07144..2662f272b7c34857c22adf7fa32a000eb4d40eab 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
     communicates with the slurmstepd processes through the slurmstepd's
     new named unix domain socket.  The "stepd_api" is used to talk to the
     slurmstepd (src/slurmd/common/stepd_api.[ch]).
+ -- partition allocator will find most any partition size now.  Added support 
+    to start at any point in partition allocator to request a partition 
+    instead of always starting at 000.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre3
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