diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8733ffc9ce..3331ff351a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Copyright (c) 2004-2008 High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart,
                         University of Stuttgart.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2004-2006 The Regents of the University of California.
                         All rights reserved.
-Copyright (c) 2006-2013 Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+Copyright (c) 2006-2014 Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2006      Voltaire, Inc. All rights reserved.
 Copyright (c) 2006      Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
                         Use is subject to license terms.
@@ -63,19 +63,31 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
 
 1.8.4
 -----
+
 - Removed inadvertent change that set --enable-mpi-thread-multiple "on"
-  by default, thus impacting performance for non-threaded apps
+  by default, thus impacting performance for non-threaded apps.
 - Significantly reduced startup time by optimizing internal hash table
-  implementation
-- Fixed segfault in neighborhood collectives under certain use-cases
-- Fixed Solaris support
-- Fixed PMI configure tests for certain Slurm installation patterns
-- Fixed param registration issue in Java bindings
-- Several man page fixes
-- Silence several warnings and close some memory leaks
-- Re-enabled the use of CMA and knem in the shared memory BTL
-- Updated mpirun manpage to correctly explain new map/rank/binding options
-- Numerous updates and performance improvements to OSHMEM
+  implementation.
+- Fixed OS X linking with the Fortran mpi module when used with
+  gfortran >= 4.9.  Thanks to Github user yafshar for raising the
+  issue.
+- Fixed memory leak on Cygwin platforms.  Thanks for Marco Atzeri for
+  reporting the issue.
+- Fixed seg fault in neighborhood collectives when the degree of the
+  topology is higher than the communicator size.  Thanks to Lisandro
+  Dalcin for reporting the issue.
+- Fixed segfault in neighborhood collectives under certain use-cases.
+- Fixed Solaris support.
+- Fixed PMI configure tests for certain Slurm installation patterns.
+- Fixed param registration issue in Java bindings.  Thanks to Takahiro
+  Kawashima and Siegmar Gross for identifying the issue.
+- Several man page fixes.
+- Silence several warnings and close some memory leaks.
+- Re-enabled the use of CMA and knem in the shared memory BTL.
+- Updated mpirun manpage to correctly explain new map/rank/binding options.
+- Fixed MPI_IALLGATHER problem with intercommunicators.  Thanks for
+  Takahiro Kawashima for the patch.
+- Numerous updates and performance improvements to OSHMEM.
 
 
 1.8.3