diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7fb43c1a25237ed54922814230a717ea78aeca1a..f6ad6f99f065ab72ba6956c1bf206823f0dd515d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
     JobCredPublicKey.  They now match the options in the slurm.conf.
  -- Fix bug in job accounting for very long node list records (Andy Riebs,
     HP, sacct_buf.patch).
+ -- BLUEGENE SPECIFIC - added load function to smap to load an already 
+    exsistant bluegene.conf file.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 0.7.0-pre8
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