diff --git a/META b/META
index a381ac9161178a347960ae47b11794cbf64243bf..96c8425f13341803df65edc44a6c2edd5c8fabb0 100644
--- a/META
+++ b/META
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
   Minor:	4
   Micro:        0
   Version:	0.4.0
-  Release:	0.pre1
+  Release:	0.pre2
   API_CURRENT:	6	
   API_AGE:	4
   API_REVISION:	0
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b1ca2987394785c866423f7f9efbb5b4571365c3..c929880de2e7c33eb77db0a933220d10744f58e3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
    - slurm/477: Signal of batch job script (scancel -b) fixed
    - slurm/481: Permit clearing of AllowGroups field for a partition
    - slurm/482: Adjust Elan base context number to match RMS range
+   - slurm/489: Job completion logger was writing NULL to text file
  -- Preserve job's requested processor count info after job is initiated 
     (for viewing by squeue and scontrol)
  -- srun cancels created job if job step creation fails