diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index ef21396f182..b8fc2118435 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -53,6 +53,25 @@ included in the vX.Y.Z section and be denoted as:
    (** also appeared: A.B.C)  -- indicating that this item was previously
                                  included in release version vA.B.C.
 
+1.10.5 - 19 Dec 2016
+------
+- Update UCX APIs
+- Fix bug in darray that caused MPI/IO failures
+- Use a MPI_Get_library_version() like string to tag the debugger DLL.
+  Thanks to Alastair McKinstry for the report
+- Fix multi-threaded race condition in coll/libnbc
+- Several fixes to OSHMEM
+- Fix bug in UCX support due to uninitialized field
+- Fix MPI_Ialltoallv with MPI_IN_PLACE and without MPI param check
+- Correctly reset receive request type before init. Thanks Chris Pattison
+  for the report and test case.
+- Fix bug in iallgather[v]
+- Fix concurrency issue with MPI_Comm_accept. Thanks to Pieter Noordhuis
+  for the patch
+- Fix ompi_coll_base_{gather,scatter}_intra_binomial
+- Fixed an issue with MPI_Type_get_extent returning the wrong extent
+  for distributed array datatypes.
+
 
 1.10.4 - 01 Sept 2016
 ------
diff --git a/README b/README
index 1f997de6e91..f8ac1a774e8 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Copyright (c) 2007      Myricom, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2008      IBM Corporation.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2010      Oak Ridge National Labs.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2011      University of Houston. All rights reserved.
-Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Intel, Inc. All rights reserved
+Copyright (c) 2013-2016 Intel, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 $COPYRIGHT$
 
 Additional copyrights may follow
@@ -182,6 +182,10 @@ Compiler Notes
   source directory path names that was resolved in 9.0-4 (9.0-3 is
   known to be broken in this regard).
 
+- If building C++ bindings or VT, we advise against use of CXX=pgc++
+  prior to PGI 16.10. Users report that using CXX=pgCC instead of pgc++
+  resolves the problem. Otherwise, pgc++ appears usable from 14.3 forward.
+
 - IBM's xlf compilers: NO known good version that can build/link
   the MPI f08 bindings or build/link the OSHMEM Fortran bindings.