diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6666ae5fd..abdda6164 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -113,6 +113,11 @@ This module requires SLIB to be installed and available from Guile.
 
 * Changes to the stand-alone interpreter
 
+** Evaluation of "()", the empty list, is now an error.
+
+Previously, you could for example write (cons 1 ()); now you need to
+be more explicit and write (cons 1 '()).
+
 ** It's now possible to create modules with controlled environments
 
 Example:
diff --git a/libguile/ChangeLog b/libguile/ChangeLog
index b95d5426f..560d8d53c 100644
--- a/libguile/ChangeLog
+++ b/libguile/ChangeLog
@@ -17,9 +17,6 @@
 	(scm_apply, scm_dapply): use SCM_EVALIM2 to get proper error
 	reporting for empty combinations.
 
-	[ I think I recovered the lost performance with this.  I will
- 	  further clean this up soon, too. ]
-
 2001-03-02  Keisuke Nishida  <kxn30@po.cwru.edu>
 
 	* Remove dump facilities.