diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 924cfb86c..fe02e54e3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@ Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
 
 Changes since Guile 1.3.4:
 
-configure has new options to remove support for certain features:
+* Changes to the distribution
+
+** configure has new options to remove support for certain features:
 
 --disable-posix    omit posix interfaces
 --disable-net      omit networking interfaces
@@ -14,7 +16,7 @@ configure has new options to remove support for certain features:
 
 These are likely to become separate modules some day.
 
-* Added new configure option --enable-debug-freelist
+** Added new configure option --enable-debug-freelist
 
 This enables a debugging version of SCM_NEWCELL(), and also registers
 an extra primitive, the setter `gc-set-debug-check-freelist!'.
diff --git a/THANKS b/THANKS
index 8e6f30ae1..a02d2843b 100644
--- a/THANKS
+++ b/THANKS
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-The Guile maintainer is Jim Blandy.
+Jim Blandy is Guile's maintainer.
 
 Thanks to:
 
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ Bug reports and fixes from:
 
       Greg Harvey
     Jorgen Schaefer
+   Bernard Urban
diff --git a/libguile/ChangeLog b/libguile/ChangeLog
index 7d62c1da5..18a573fcd 100644
--- a/libguile/ChangeLog
+++ b/libguile/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+1999-10-05  Jim Blandy  <jimb@savonarola.red-bean.com>
+
+	* numbers.c (scm_string_to_number): Signal an error if radix is
+	less than two.  (Thanks to Jorgen Schaefer.)
+
+	* print.c (scm_write, scm_display, scm_newline, scm_write_char):
+	Don't assume that the current output port is valid.  Somebody
+	might close it.  (Thanks to Bernard Urban.)
+
 1999-10-02  Jim Blandy  <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
 
 	* scmconfig.h.in: Regenerated.