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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 29cb051..292ee48 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,4 +1,18 @@
 changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
+  * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
+    supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
+    supported platforms.
+  * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
+    no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
+    original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
+  * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
+    (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
+  * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
+    generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
+    bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
+  * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
+    associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
+    Bruno Haible)
   * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
     (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32.  (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
   * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
@@ -11,10 +25,19 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
     Beane)
   * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
     IR1-optimization.  (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
+  * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
        returns the right answer.
-    ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence creators.
+    ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
+       creators.
+    ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
+       correct.
+    ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
+    ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
+       correct amounts.
+    ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
+       non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
   * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and