diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0df7e0e0b..278f8348a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ To be released as 0.11.5.
 
 * critical bug 1027 in user SMJS: make elinks.keymaps treat null and
   "none" as equivalent actions, avoiding a segfault
+* critical bug 1030: an assertion used to fail in the search dialog
+  on systems that lack a usable <regex.h>
 * major bug 503: various fixes in parsing and updating of elinks.conf
 * build bug 1021: fixed uninitialized variable in http_got_header