diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9a0b7cb78..7f6aa8469 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Changes since Guile 1.4:
 
   tag - no replacement.
   fseek - replaced by seek.
-  list* - replaced by cons*.  
+  list* - replaced by cons*.
 
 ** New SRFI modules have been added:
 
@@ -49,6 +49,19 @@ Changes since Guile 1.4:
 
 (srfi srfi-14) implements the SRFI Character-Set Library.
 
+** New scripts / "executable modules"
+
+Subdirectory "scripts" contains Scheme modules that are packaged to
+also be executable as scripts.  At this time, these scripts are available:
+
+     display-commentary
+     doc-snarf
+     generate-autoload
+     punify
+     use2dot
+
+See README there for more info.
+
 ** New module (ice-9 stack-catch):
 
 stack-catch is like catch, but saves the current state of the stack in