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diff --git a/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely b/Documentation/topdocs/NEWS.tely
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@@ -65,6 +65,69 @@ which scares away people.
 
 @end ignore
 
+@item
+Text spreading over several pages is entered using the
+@code{\markuplines} keyword. Builtin markup list commands, such as
+@code{\justified-lines} or @code{\wordwrap-lines} may be used, and new
+ones created using the @code{define-markup-list-command} Scheme macro.
+
+@item
+Particular points of a book may be marked with the @code{\label}
+command. Then, the page where these points are placed can be refered to
+using the @code{\page-ref} markup command.
+
+@item
+Page breaking and page turning commands (@code{\pageBreak},
+@code{\noPageBreak}, etc) can be used at top-level, between scores and
+top-level markups.
+
+@item
+The following options are now changed as a @code{-d} sub-option:
+@code{--backend}, @code{--safe}, @code{--preview} and
+@code{--no-pages} (which became @code{-dno-print-pages}).  The @code{-b}
+option does not exist any more.
+
+@item
+Improved testing procedure now catch changes in CPU and memory
+performance, page layout, MIDI results and warnings.  This helps to
+reduce the number of regression errors during development, resulting
+in more stable releases.
+
+See @uref{INSTALL.html#testing} for more information.
+@item
+Nested properties, such as @code{details} in @code{Slur}, can be
+reverted as well.  The syntax for this is
+
+@example
+\revert Slur #'(details closeness-factor)
+@end example
+
+@item
+All line spanners are more flexible now in the configuration of their
+end points.  This includes glissando, voice followers, text crescendos
+and other text spanners.
+
+@c  with ragged-right we can't see the gliss.
+@lilypond[]
+\relative c'' {
+  \override Glissando #'bound-details #'right #'text = \markup { \hcenter \bold down }
+  \override Glissando #'bound-details #'right #'Y = #-4
+  \override Glissando #'bound-details #'right #'padding = #0.0
+  \override Glissando #'bound-details #'left #'arrow = ##t
+  \override Glissando #'bound-details #'left #'padding = #3.0
+  \override Glissando #'style = #'trill
+  
+  c1 \glissando c'
+}
+@end lilypond
+
+This feature was sponsored by Trevor Bača.
+
+ 
+@item
+The environment variable LILYPONDPREFIX has been renamed to
+LILYPOND_DATADIR.
+
 @item
 Notes or rests, such as a typical end note, that fill an entire
 measure are preceded by some more space.