diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index e2f342bc8..ebff5116f 100644
--- a/debian/NEWS
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
-fai (5.4.1) unstable; urgency=low
+fai (5.5) unstable; urgency=low
 
-  * New option -S in fcopy, which can replace your preinst scripts
+  * New option -S in fcopy for variable substitution, which may replace
+    your preinst scripts
+  * Get rid of the need to have aptitude installed
+  * Change order of package commands in install_packages, aptitude is now
+    called after apt-get
 
- -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>  Wed, 18 Oct 2017 20:44:39 +0200
+ -- Thomas Lange <lange@debian.org>  Thu, 19 Oct 2017 22:47:20 +0200
 
 fai (5.4) unstable; urgency=low