diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b5c61d3504e9d816bd75738bbf554a59913e110c..c60efc20d057fbdb1723c6ce41789880d04e275d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Add new sinfo field to sort by "%E" sorts by the time associated with a 
     node's state (from Prashanth Tamraparni, HP).
  -- In sched/wiki: fix logic for restarting backup slurmctld.
+ -- Preload SLURM plugins early in the slurmstepd operation to avoid
+    multiple dlopens after forking (and to avoid a glibc bug
+    that leaves dlopen locks in a bad state after a fork).
 
 * Changes in SLURM 1.2.8
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