diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3cb8fd6a1..8071f710f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ reduced to 30% of what it was previously.
 Correctly written scripts load the modules they require at the top of
 the file and should not be affected by this change.
 
+** Hooks are now represented as smobs
+
 * Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
 
 ** Readline support has changed again.
@@ -110,6 +112,12 @@ If present, FLAGS is passed as the FLAGS argument to regexp-exec.
 
 Return #t if OBJ is a hook, otherwise #f.
 
+*** New function: make-hook-with-name NAME [ARITY]
+
+Return a hook with name NAME and arity ARITY.  The default value for
+ARITY is 0.  The only effect of NAME is that it will appear when the
+hook object is printed to ease debugging.
+
 *** New function: hook-empty? HOOK
 
 Return #t if HOOK doesn't contain any procedures, otherwise #f.
@@ -253,6 +261,23 @@ these compilation units has been cleaned up and better structured.
   New function: SCM scm_call_generic_2 (GENERIC, ARG1, ARG2)
   New function: SCM scm_call_generic_3 (GENERIC, ARG1, ARG2, ARG3)
 
+** Deprecated function: scm_make_named_hook
+
+It is now replaced by:
+
+** New function: SCM scm_create_hook (const char *name, int arity)
+
+Creates a hook in the same way as make-hook above but also
+binds a variable named NAME to it.
+
+This is the typical way of creating a hook from C code.
+
+Currently, the variable is created in the "current" module.
+This might change when we get the new module system.
+
+[The behaviour is identical to scm_make_named_hook.]
+
+
 
 Changes since Guile 1.3:
 
@@ -1367,8 +1392,8 @@ binds a variable named NAME to it.
 
 This is the typical way of creating a hook from C code.
 
-Currently, the variable is created in the root module.  This will
-change when we get the new module system.
+Currently, the variable is created in the "current" module.  This
+might change when we get the new module system.
 
 ** The smob interface
 
diff --git a/RELEASE b/RELEASE
index 21c13b888..dc4ffbcde 100644
--- a/RELEASE
+++ b/RELEASE
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ In release 1.4:
 - remove kw.h, scm_tc16_kw
 - remove genio.h
 - remove deprecated function scm_newsmob.
+- remove deprecated function scm_make_named_hook.
 
 Modules sort.c and random.c should be factored out into separate
 modules (but still be distributed with guile-core) when we get a new
diff --git a/libguile/ChangeLog b/libguile/ChangeLog
index 8a172e657..524bc59e4 100644
--- a/libguile/ChangeLog
+++ b/libguile/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+1999-09-13  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@thalamus.nada.kth.se>
+
+	* feature.c (scm_create_hook): New function.  Replaces
+	scm_make_named_hook which is now deprecated.
+	(scm_make_hook_with_name): New primitive.
+	(print_hook): Hooks now print in a fancy way.
+
 1999-09-12  Mikael Djurfeldt  <mdj@thalamus.nada.kth.se>
 
 	* __scm.h, backtrace.c, backtrace.h, debug.c, debug.h, dynl-dld.c,