diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4793b13a98..f94231989b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -80,15 +80,19 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
 1.2.4
 -----
 
-- Fixed a build issue with GNU/kFreeBSD. Thanks to Petr Salinger for the patch.
+- Fixed a build issue with GNU/kFreeBSD. Thanks to Petr Salinger for
+  the patch.
 - Added missing MPI_FILE_NULL constant in Fortran.  Thanks to
   Bernd Schubert for bringing this to our attention.
-- The UDPL BTL is only built in Linux when explicitly specified via
-  the --with-udapl configure command line switch.
-- Fixed an issue with umask not being propagated when using the TM launcher.
+- Change such that the UDAPL BTL is now only built in Linux when
+  explicitly specified via the --with-udapl configure command line
+  switch.
+- Fixed an issue with umask not being propagated when using the TM
+  launcher.
 - Fixed behavior if number of slots is not the same on all bproc nodes.
 - Fixed a hang on systems without GPR support (ex. Cray XT3/4).
-- Prevent users of 32-bit MPI apps from requesting >= 2GB of shared memory.
+- Prevent users of 32-bit MPI apps from requesting >= 2GB of shared
+  memory.
 - Added a Portals MTL.
 - Fix 0 sized MPI_ALLOC_MEM requests.  Thanks to Lisandro Dalcin for
   pointing out the problem.
@@ -98,24 +102,27 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
   to MPI_COMM_FREE.  Thanks to Lisandro Dalcini for the bug report.
 - Fixed compilation on platforms that don't have hton/ntoh.
 - Fixed a logic problem in the fortran binding for MPI_TYPE_MATCH_SIZE.
-  Thanks to Jeff Dusenberry for pointing out the problem and supplying the fix.
+  Thanks to Jeff Dusenberry for pointing out the problem and supplying
+  the fix.
 - Fixed a problem with MPI_BOTTOM in various places of the f77-interface.
   Thanks to Daniel Spangberg for bringing this up.
-- Fixed problem with optional Fortran types to be correctly initialized.
-- Fixed some problems with the IO forwarding (IOF) code.
+- Fixed problem where MPI-optional Fortran datatypes were not
+  correctly initialized.
+- Fixed several problems with stdin/stdout forwarding.
 - Fixed overflow problems with the sm mpool MCA parameters on large SMPs.
 - Added support for the DDT parallel debugger via orterun's --debug
   command line option.
-- Added some checks to the openib parameter parsing code.
+- Added some sanity/error checks to the openib MCA parameter parsing
+  code.
 - Updated the udapl BTL to use RDMA capabilities.
-- Allow use of the Bproc head node if it was allocated to the user.
+- Allow use of the BProc head node if it was allocated to the user.
   Thanks to Sean Kelly for reporting the problem and helping debug it.
 - Fixed a ROMIO problem where non-blocking I/O errors were not properly
   reported to the user.
 - Made remote process launch check the $SHELL environment variable if
   a valid shell was not otherwise found for the user.
   Thanks to Alf Wachsmann for the bugreport and suggested fix.
-- Added/Updated some vendor IDs for a few openib HCAs
+- Added/updated some vendor IDs for a few openib HCAs.
 - Fixed a couple of failures that could occur when specifying devices
   for use by the OOB.
 - Removed dependency on sysfsutils from the openib BTL for