diff --git a/META b/META
index 365dc0bd1cda4dfe0cb551c4dc578b583ea9fe65..7d924bffd78de18eefadd02ac38850024fc3c0b7 100644
--- a/META
+++ b/META
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   Minor:	5
   Micro:        0
   Version:	0.5.0
-  Release:	0.pre10
+  Release:	0.pre11
   API_CURRENT:	7	
   API_AGE:	4
   API_REVISION:	0
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3688a8a4648453c5a7625d12d5560aecbcb21cfb..05c7ac921add6b7059dd1ec3c3b5f08e172e4b42 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
     killing it to avoid killing system daemon (race condition).
  -- srun --output or --error file names of "none" mapped to /dev/null for 
     batch jobs rather than a file actually named "none".
+ -- BGL: don't try to read bglblock state until they are all created to 
+    avoid having BGL Bridge API seg fault.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 0.5.0-pre10
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