diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index 0995419fd..64eb723ea 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ In release 1.6:
 - remove scm_tc7_msymbol
 - remove scm_tcs_symbols
 - remove scm_sloppy_memq, scm_sloppy_memv, scm_sloppy_member
+- consider removing the automatic loading of (ice-9 rdelim) when guile
+  starts up.  This would be a brave move, since a lot of code will
+  assume that read-line is available by default.  However it would make
+  it easier to use alternative implementations of this module, e.g., a
+  strictly scsh-compatible version which uses multiple values.  For
+  interactive use it would be easy to load the module in ~/.guile.
+- remove scm_close_all_ports_except
 
 Modules sort.c and random.c should be factored out into separate
 modules (but still be distributed with guile-core) when we get a new