diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a2c7426a1..9352b5f8f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@ ELinks 0.11.3.GIT now:
 To be released as 0.11.4.
 
 * critical bug 945: don't crash if a Lua script calls e.g. error(nil)
+* major bug 956: don't reuse pointers to SpiderMonkey objects that may
+  have been collected as garbage.  This fix causes bug 954.
 * CVE-2007-2027: check if the program path contains "src/" before
   using ../po files
 * important Debian bug 380347: prevent a buffer overflow in entity_cache