diff --git a/etc/news.scm b/etc/news.scm
index a90f92a9ff..5a32eee7f5 100644
--- a/etc/news.scm
+++ b/etc/news.scm
@@ -33,6 +33,18 @@
 (channel-news
  (version 0)
 
+ (entry (commit "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")
+        (title
+         (en "local-file behaves consistently for symlinks"))
+        (body
+         (en "Previous behavior differed between whether someone
+loaded the symlink or the actual scheme file.  One of them had to be
+broken, at least when loading a channel module.
+
+Affected users who expected paths relative to the symlink would need
+to append "/../.." or similar or the relative path to the “real” file
+the symlink points to to the path.")))
+
  (entry (commit "2fae63df2138b74d30e120364f0f272871595862")
         (title
          (en "Core packages updated")