diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7624a32e3..3cb8fd6a1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,6 +6,52 @@ Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
 
 Changes since Guile 1.3.2:
 
+* Changes to the stand-alone interpreter
+
+** Debugger
+
+An initial version of the Guile debugger written by Chris Hanson has
+been added.  The debugger is still under development but is included
+in the distribution anyway since it is already quite useful.
+
+Type
+
+  (debug)
+
+after an error to enter the debugger.  Type `help' inside the debugger
+for a description of available commands.
+
+If you prefer to have stack frames numbered and printed in
+anti-chronological order and prefer up in the stack to be down on the
+screen as is the case in gdb, you can put
+
+  (debug-enable 'backwards)
+
+in your .guile startup file.  (However, this means that Guile can't
+use indentation to indicate stack level.)
+
+The debugger is autoloaded into Guile at the first use.
+
+** Further enhancements to backtraces
+
+There is a new debug option `width' which controls the maximum width
+on the screen of printed stack frames.  Fancy printing parameters
+("level" and "length" as in Common LISP) are adaptively adjusted for
+each stack frame to give maximum information while still fitting
+within the bounds.  If the stack frame can't be made to fit by
+adjusting parameters, it is simply cut off at the end.  This is marked
+with a `$'.
+
+** Some modules are now only loaded when the repl is started
+
+The modules (ice-9 debug), (ice-9 session), (ice-9 threads) and (ice-9
+regex) are now loaded into (guile-user) only if the repl has been
+started.  The effect is that the startup time for scripts has been
+reduced to 30% of what it was previously.
+
+Correctly written scripts load the modules they require at the top of
+the file and should not be affected by this change.
+
 * Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
 
 ** Readline support has changed again.
@@ -101,6 +147,10 @@ otherwise return #f.
 Returns true iff OBJECT is a directory stream --- the sort of object
 returned by `opendir'.
 
+** New function: using-readline?
+
+Return #t if readline is in use in the current repl.
+
 * Changes to the scm_ interface
 
 ** The internal representation of subr's has changed
diff --git a/ice-9/ChangeLog b/ice-9/ChangeLog
index d4ee66b6c..17ffcb89b 100644
--- a/ice-9/ChangeLog
+++ b/ice-9/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 1999-09-12  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@thalamus.nada.kth.se>
 
+	* debugger.scm ("evaluate"): Newline after no env announcement.
+
 	* debug.scm, emacs.scm: Updated copyright notices.
 
 	* boot-9.scm (make-autoload-interface): Bugfix.
@@ -21,7 +23,7 @@
 
 1999-09-11  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@thalamus.nada.kth.se>
 
-*	* boot-9.scm (using-readline?): New procedure: Returns #t if
+	* boot-9.scm (using-readline?): New procedure: Returns #t if
 	readline is used by the repl run by this thread.
 	(handle-system-error): Print "Backtrace:" before backtrace since
 	this is no longer done by display-backtrace.
@@ -77,11 +79,11 @@
 
 1999-09-11  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@thalamus.nada.kth.se>
 
-*	* debugger.scm: New file: Initial version of the Guile debugger
+	* debugger.scm: New file: Initial version of the Guile debugger
 	written by Chris Hanson.  (The debugger isn't finished, but is
 	included in Guile anyway since it is already quite useful.)
 
-*	* boot-9.scm (top-repl): Use (ice-9 debug) (ice-9 debugger) (ice-9
+	* boot-9.scm (top-repl): Use (ice-9 debug) (ice-9 debugger) (ice-9
 	session) (ice-9 threads) (ice-9 regex) from guile-user only if
 	top-repl is called.  This makes startup time for scripts 30% of
 	what it was before...  Removed redundant code for loading of