diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index de7a35db..a282e268 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -44,6 +44,23 @@ xbps-0.54 (???):
  * configure: added `enable-rpath` to set rpath in executables to `$ORIGIN/../lib`,
    which makes xbps relocatable. [xtraeme]
 
+ * libxbps/fetch: Add happy eyeballs (RFC6555/RFC8305).
+   xbps now to connects to ipv6 and ipv4 addresses in a short interval and use the
+   first established connection.
+
+ * xbps now has a new configuration option `ignorepkg`, which allows to ignore
+   specified packages from being installed as dependency. [duncaen]
+
+ * xbps-pkgdb(1): new check for alternative symlinks. [duncaen]
+
+ * xbps now doesn't delete symlinks a user created in place of files which
+   are marked as config files.It will always extracts the configuration file
+   with the `.new-$pkgver` suffix instead. [duncaen]
+
+ * xbps-checkvers(1): new `--manual` flag to only check specified templates.
+
+ * xbps-checkvers(1): new `--format` flag to change the output format.
+
 xbps-0.53 (2018-07-30):
 
  * xbps-rindex(1): fix possible stagedata deadlock. (@Gottox)