diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 0a363711626..b358bfcc8de 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ has been added.  They are: 'file-attribute-type',
 ** The new function `buffer-hash' has been added, and can be used to
 compute a fash, non-consing hash of the contents of a buffer.
 
+---
+** `fill-paragraph' no longer marks the buffer as changed unless it
+actually changed something.
+
 ---
 ** The locale language name 'ca' is now mapped to the language
 environment 'Catalan', which has been added.