diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8df048a73a1a0ba3170d97ca40622555575afc33..2fbd510a2778546efd65d96d57d2ab73b61fd5c2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -27,7 +27,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
     input, output and error files are in that directory rather than the 
     directory from which the command is executed
  -- NOTE: Fully operational with Moab version 5.2.3+. Change SUBMITCMD in
-    moab.cfg to be the location of sbatch rather than srun.
+    moab.cfg to be the location of sbatch rather than srun. Also set 
+    HostFormat=2 in SLURM's wiki.conf for improved performance.
  -- NOTE: We needed to change an RPC from version 1.3.0. You must upgrade 
     all nodes in a cluster from v1.3.0 to v1.3.1 at the same time.