diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 08eec5657..edce34973 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,6 +8,21 @@ Changes since Guile 1.3.2:
 
 * Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
 
+** Hooks
+
+*** New function: hook? OBJ
+
+Return #t if OBJ is a hook, otherwise #f.
+
+*** New function: hook-empty? HOOK
+
+Return #t if HOOK doesn't contain any procedures, otherwise #f.
+
+*** New function: hook->list HOOK
+
+Return a list of the procedures that are called when run-hook is
+applied to HOOK.
+
 ** `map' signals an error if its argument lists are not all the same length.
 
 This is the behavior required by R5RS, so this change is really a bug
diff --git a/libguile/ChangeLog b/libguile/ChangeLog
index 5e7ed4f02..5f05a91b0 100644
--- a/libguile/ChangeLog
+++ b/libguile/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+1999-09-09  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@thalamus.nada.kth.se>
+
+	* feature.c, feature.h: (scm_hook_p, scm_hook_empty_p): New
+	primitives. (Thanks to Greg Badros);
+	(scm_hook_to_list): New primitive; Hooks are now smobs.
+
 1999-09-08  Gary Houston  <ghouston@easynet.co.uk>
 
 	* stime.c (bdtime2c): rewrite the ASSERTs.  Accept a value