diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d39de19bb650e4b39207d2c0db5dd95c1b77794b..73e46002f67bacee71875baffc2f62468aeaa836 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
     in sattach.c, step_launch.c, and allocate_msg.c, and moved the function 
     into a common place for all the calls since the code was very similar.
  -- proctrack/lua support has been added see contribs/lua/protrack.lua
+ -- replaced local gtk m4 test with AM_PATH_GTK_2_0
+ -- changed AC_CHECK_LIB to AC_SEARCH_LIBS to avoid extra libs in
+    compile lines.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 2.1.0-pre7
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