diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index fcaa2520..5357ba42 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -33,6 +33,9 @@ have been downloaded.
already resolves when resolving handling URLs, link
conversion now makes the BASE tags point to an empty string.
+** If a host has more than one IP address, Wget uses the other
+addresses when accessing the first one fails.
+
** Host directories now contain port information if the URL is at a
non-standard port.
@@ -40,8 +43,8 @@ non-standard port.
.
** URL parser has been fixed, especially the infamous overzealous
-quoting bug. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F'
-is no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
+quoting. Wget no longer dequotes reserved characters, e.g. `%3F' is
+no longer translated to `?', nor `%2B' to `+'. Unsafe characters
which are not reserved are still escaped, of course.
* Wget 1.7.1 is a bugfix release with no user-visible changes.