diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 662a44f530e580d76126662709f7e026923e5812..fe6968554dfb502dc056f4f25a64ef35d4dac8bc 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Add Blue Gene User Guide to html documents
  -- Fix srun bug that could cause seg fault with --no-shell option if not 
     running under a debugger
+ -- Propogate job's task count (if set) for batch job via SLURM_NPROCS.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 0.4.0-pre2
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