diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 30ab8fbe83..0d8fc06229 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -50,9 +50,7 @@ included in the vX.Y.Z section and be denoted as:
 Trunk (not on release branches yet)
 -----------------------------------
 
-- Lots of autogen / build system improvements.
-- Added --with-libltdl[=VALUE] option to allow using a libltdl
-  installation from outside of the Open MPI source tree.
+- Revamped autogen / build system.
 - ErrMgr framework redesigned to better support fault tolerance development
   activities. See the following RFC for details:
   http://www.open-mpi.org/community/lists/devel/2010/03/7589.php
@@ -66,7 +64,33 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
   being "bound to all", which is equivalent to "not bound"
 
 
-1.5 (expected)
+1.5.1
+-----
+
+- Fixes for the Oracle Studio 12.2 Fortran compiler.
+- Fix SPARC and SPARCv9 atomics.  Thanks to Nicola Stange for the
+  initial patch.
+- Fix Libtool issues with the IBM XL compiler in 64-bit mode.
+- Restore the reset of the libevent progress counter to avoid
+  over-sampling the event library.
+- Update memory barrier support.
+- Use memmove (instead of memcpy) when necessary (e.g., source and
+  destination overlap).
+- Fixed ompi-top crash.
+- Fix to handle Autoconf --program-transforms properly and other
+  m4/configury updates.  Thanks to the GASNet project for the
+  --program transforms fix.
+- Allow hostfiles to specify usernames on a per-host basis.
+- Update wrapper compiler scripts to search for perl during configure,
+  per request from the BSD maintainers.
+- Minor man page fixes.
+- Added --with-libltdl option to allow building Open MPI with an
+  external installation of libltdl.
+- Fixed various issues with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2.
+- Various VT fixes and updates.
+
+
+1.5
 ---
 
 - Added "knem" support: direct process-to-process copying for shared
@@ -85,16 +109,16 @@ Trunk (not on release branches yet)
   Brown for reporting the issue.
 - Made the openib BTL safer if extremely low SRQ settings are used.
 - Fixed handling of the array_of_argv parameter in the Fortran
-  binding of MPI_COMM_SPAWN_MULTIPLE (** also appeared: 1.4.3).
+  binding of MPI_COMM_SPAWN_MULTIPLE (** also to appear: 1.4.3).
 - Fixed malloc(0) warnings in some collectives.
 - Fixed a problem with the Fortran binding for
   MPI_FILE_CREATE_ERRHANDLER.  Thanks to Secretan Yves for identifying
-  the issue (** also appeared: 1.4.3).
+  the issue (** also to appear: 1.4.3).
 - Updates to the LSF PLM to ensure that the path is correctly passed.
-  Thanks to Teng Lin for the patch (** also appeared: 1.4.3).
+  Thanks to Teng Lin for the patch (** also to appear: 1.4.3).
 - Fixes for the F90 MPI_COMM_SET_ERRHANDLER and MPI_WIN_SET_ERRHANDLER
   bindings.  Thanks to Paul Kapinos for pointing out the issue
-  (** also appeared: 1.4.3).
+  (** also to appear: 1.4.3).
 - Fixed extra_state parameter types in F90 prototypes for
   MPI_COMM_CREATE_KEYVAL, MPI_GREQUEST_START, MPI_REGISTER_DATAREP,
   MPI_TYPE_CREATE_KEYVAL, and MPI_WIN_CREATE_KEYVAL.