diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -130,7 +130,16 @@ guile-tools is copied to the standard $bindir on "make install".
 
 ** Snarfing news
 
-The program guile-snarf is now documented in the manual.
+The program guile-snarf is now documented in the manual, including how
+to use the current guile-snarf to handle code using the guile-1.4 snarf
+macros within the guile-1.6 environment.  Specifically, these macros are
+either renamed or no longer supported:
+
+  SCM_VCELL
+  SCM_GLOBAL_VCELL
+  SCM_VCELL_INIT
+  SCM_GLOBAL_VCELL_INIT
+  SCM_CONST_LONG
 
 These programs are no longer installed: