diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 150366829027d76cffb701906b340630a5be3a49..015aa5459d2110b1553b39bbb822a5d6753ccf8c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and administrators.
     scheduled the job.
  -- Add constraints/features to the database.
  -- Add last reason job didn't run before resources/priority to the database.
+ -- Make it so we set the alloc_node in a resource allocation based on the auth
+    plugin instead of the rpc call.
 
 * Changes in Slurm 18.08.2
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