diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7a32e451e..8e61e7584 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -164,6 +164,9 @@ be used with '-e'.  For example, you can now write a script like
 It now complies with SRFI-4 and the weird prototype based uniform
 array creation has been deprecated.  See the manual for more details.
 
+One non-compatible change is that characters can no longer be stored
+into byte arrays.
+
 ** There is now support for copy-on-write substrings, mutation-sharing
    substrings and read-only strings.
 
diff --git a/test-suite/ChangeLog b/test-suite/ChangeLog
index 11b744e91..d14bb8ee6 100644
--- a/test-suite/ChangeLog
+++ b/test-suite/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2004-10-27  Marius Vollmer  <marius.vollmer@uni-dortmund.de>
+
+	* tests/unif.test: Removed tests that tried to store a character
+	into a byte vector, which no longer works.  Characters are not
+	bytes.
+
 2004-10-03  Dirk Herrmann  <dirk@dirk-herrmanns-seiten.de>
 
 	* tests/syntax.test: Added tests for unmemoization.