diff --git a/src/NEWS b/src/NEWS
index 8274579cda8..814c30fb75a 100644
--- a/src/NEWS
+++ b/src/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 		  compares all registered parameters with those of another instance -- 
 		  up to a specified accuracy.
 		- Multiclass LDA. Thanks to Kevin Hughes.
+		- Added a new datatype, complex64_t, for complex numbers. Math functions,
+		  support for SGVector/Matrix, SGSparseVector/Matrix, and serialization
+		  with Ascii and Xml files added. [Soumyajit De].
 	* Bugfixes:
 		- Fix json serialization.
 		- Fixed bugs in FITC inference method that caused wrong posterior results.