diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cea8c589d..2a637a56e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,6 +26,28 @@ Command line history length is now controlled by the readline option
 
 * Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
 
+** New module: (ice-9 setf)
+Implements generalized references a la Common LISP.
+
+* New syntax: setf! PLACE VALUE
+Puts VALUE in location specified by PLACE.  setf! is more general than
+set! in the sense that PLACE can be a form (GETTER EXP1 EXP2 ...).  The
+setf! expression will bw transformed into (SETTER EXP1 EXP2 ... VALUE)
+where SETTER is a procedure or macro which has previously been
+associated with GETTER.
+
+Example:
+
+ (setf! (car x) 4) <=> (set-car! x 4)
+
+* New syntax: setter GETTER
+The name of the SETTER of GETTER.  The way to associate a SETTER with
+a GETTER is: (setf! (setter GETTER) SETTER)
+
+Example:
+
+  (setf! (setter car) set-car!)
+
 ** The range of logand, logior, logxor, logtest, and logbit? have changed.
 
 These functions now operate on numbers in the range of a C unsigned
diff --git a/ice-9/ChangeLog b/ice-9/ChangeLog
index a78d89f7b..99de8f788 100644
--- a/ice-9/ChangeLog
+++ b/ice-9/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+1998-12-07  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
+
+	* Makefile.am: Added setf.scm.
+
+1998-12-05  Christian Lynbech  <chl@tbit.dk>
+
+	* setf.scm: New file.  Adds the new forms `setf!' and `setter'
+	which implements generalized references a la Common LISP.
+
 1998-12-02  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@barbara.nada.kth.se>
 
 	* boot-9.scm (process-define-module): Added new specifier