diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -16,39 +16,62 @@ Changes in 1.8.1 (since 1.8.0):
 
 * Changes to the distribution
 
+** It should now be OK use both autoload and use-modules on a given module.
+
+** A number of build problems on MacOS, SunOS, and QNX have been fixed.
+
+** The evaluator now checks the number of arguments more correctly.
+
+Previously the evaluator wasn't checking the number arguments
+correctly for functions like make-vector that accept one or two
+arguments.  Now it does.
+
 * Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
 
-** New function primitive-_exit giving the _exit() system call.
+** A primitive-_exit function which calls _exit() has been added.
+
 ** A one-dimenisonal array can now be 'equal?' to a vector.
+
 ** Structures, records, and SRFI-9 records can now be compared with `equal?'.
+
 ** SRFI-14 standard char sets are now recomputed upon successful `setlocale'.
+
 ** `record-accessor' and `record-modifier' strict type checks
+
 Record accessor and modifier procedures now throw an error if the
 record type of the record they're given is not the type expected
 (previously accessors returned #f and modifiers silently did nothing).
+
 ** File access uses LFS funcs to get 64-bit files on 32-bit systems.
 
+** A bug in n-par-for-each and n-for-each-par-map has been fixed.
+
+** The array-set! function should no longer segfault when given a bit vector.
+
+** The srfi-1 assoc function now calls its equality predicate properly.
+
+Previously srfi-1 assoc would call the equality predicate with the key
+last.  According to the SRFI, the key should be first.
+
 * Changes to the C interface 
 
 ** New function scm_c_locale_stringn_to_number.
 
 * Bug fixes.
 
-** array-set! with bit vector.
 ** make-shared-array fixes, including examples in the manual which failed.
+
 ** string<? and friends follow char<? etc order on 8-bit chars.
-** n-par-for-each, n-for-each-par-map for "futures" variable.
-** module autoload and explicit use-modules cooperate.
+
 ** ice-9 format ~f with infs and nans.
+
 ** exact->inexact overflows on fractions with big num/den but small result.
+
 ** srfi-9 accessor and modifier procedures have strict record type checks
 (As per the srfi-9 specification.)
-** srfi-1 assoc "=" procedure argument order.
-** Build problems on MacOS, SunOS, QNX.
-** apply arg count checking fix on "1 or 2 arg" functions such as make-vector
 
 
-Changes since the 1.6.x series:
+Changes in 1.8.0 (changes since the 1.6.x series):
 
 * Changes to the distribution