diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 52f35fb3d..10501f33f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
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-Starting from September 1st, 2008, the Guile projects no longer stores
+Starting from September 1st, 2008, the Guile project no longer stores
 change logs in `ChangeLog' files.  Instead, changes are detailed in the
 version control system's logs.  They can be seen by downloading a copy
 of the Git repository:
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 179126ff2..9d31fb940 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ When you use GDS to evaluate Scheme code from Emacs, you can now use
 Thus, the `--enable-maintainer-mode' configure option is no longer
 available: Guile is now always configured in "maintainer mode".
 
+** `ChangeLog' files are no longer updated
+
+Instead, changes are detailed in the version control system's logs.  See
+the top-level `ChangeLog' files for details.
+
+
 * Bugs fixed
 
 ** `symbol->string' now returns a read-only string, as per R5RS