diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 977c8d4c83bb8b6255c53fa360742331c9b84b08..e34b78336ef777e956eaa13720ee34eaf7d75294 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Change the proctrack API to send a slurmd_job_t pointer to both
     slurm_container_create() and slurm_container_add().  One of those
     functions MUST set job->cont_id.
+ -- Remove vestigial node_use (virtual or coprocessor) field from job
+    request RPC.
 
 * Changes in SLURM 0.6.0-pre2
 =============================
diff --git a/slurm/slurm.h.in b/slurm/slurm.h.in
index 620edeb3f25f94f9bf5a190c6a8e298a979f7c24..14700786571f359cc44905e344ea135067c87a12 100644
--- a/slurm/slurm.h.in
+++ b/slurm/slurm.h.in
@@ -313,7 +313,6 @@ typedef struct job_descriptor {	/* For submit, allocate, and update requests */
 #endif
 	uint16_t conn_type;	/* see enum connection_type */
 	uint16_t rotate;	/* permit geometry rotation if set */
-	uint16_t node_use;	/* see enum node_use_type */
 /* End of Blue Gene specific values */
 	select_jobinfo_t select_jobinfo; /* opaque data type,
 			* SLURM internal use only */