diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cea67806bf..07d7e25bb7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
   being "bound to all", which is equivalent to "not bound"
 - Added MPI-3 function: MPI_GET_LIBRARY_VERSION
 - Added MPI-3 matched probe interface.
+- Revamped Fortran MPI bindings:
+  - mpifort wrapper compiler
+  - "use mpi_f08" bindings (for compilers that support it)
+  - better "use mpi" support (for compilers that support it)
 - Enabled compile-time warning of deprecated MPI functions by default
   (in supported compilers).
 - Added a new MCA parameter (ess_base_stream_buffering) that allows the user
@@ -75,6 +79,41 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
 - Added support for the DMTCP checkpoint/restart system.
 
 
+1.6
+---
+
+- Fix some process affinity issues.  When binding a process, Open MPI
+  will now bind to all available hyperthreads in a core (or socket,
+  depending on the binding options specified).
+- Add support for ARM5 and ARM6 (in addition to the existing ARM7
+  support).  Thanks to Evan Clinton for the patch.
+- Minor Mellanox MXM fixes.
+- Minor fixes to the mpirun(1) and MPI_Comm_create(3) man pages.
+- Prevent segv if COMM_SPAWN_MULTIPLE fails.  Thanks to Fujitsu for
+  the patch.
+- Disable interposed memory management in fakeroot environments.  This
+  fixes a problem in some build environments.
+- Minor hwloc updates.
+- Array versions of MPI_TEST and MPI_WAIT with a count==0 will now
+  return immediately with MPI_SUCCESS.  Thanks to Jeremiah Willcock
+  for the suggestion.
+- Update VampirTrace to v5.12.2.
+- Properly handle forwarding stdin to all processes when "mpirun
+  --stdin all" is used.
+- Workaround XLC assembly bug.
+- OS X Tiger (10.3) has not been supported for a while, so forcibly
+  abort configure if we detect it.
+- Fix segv in the openib BTL when running on SPARC 64 systems.
+- Fix some include file ordering issues on some BSD-based platforms.
+  Thanks to Paul Hargove for this (and many, many other) fixes.
+- Properly handle .FALSE. return parameter value to attribute copy
+  callback functions.
+- Fix a bunch of minor C++ API issues; thanks to Fujitsu for the patch.
+- Fixed the default hostfile MCA parameter behavior.
+- Per the MPI spec, ensure not to touch the port_name parameter to
+  MPI_CLOSE_PORT (it's an IN parameter).
+
+
 1.5.5
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