--- a/etc/NEWS	Mon Aug 13 11:24:10 2007 +0200
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Mon Aug 13 11:25:01 2007 +0200
@@ -33,6 +33,26 @@
 * Changes in XEmacs 21.2
 ========================
 
+** The functions in rect.el have been almost completely rewritten...
+to avoid inserting undesirable spaces, notably at the end of lines.
+Two typical examples of this old behavior are `string-rectangle', which filled
+all lines up to the right side of the rectangle, and `clear-rectangle', which
+filled even empty lines up to the left side.
+
+This is not the case any more. All these functions have been rewritten to
+avoid inserting unwanted spaces, and an optional prefix now allows them to
+behave the old way.
+
+As a side effect, `move-to-column' now also accepts 'coerce as its second
+argument, meaning that the line shouldn't be filled if its too short to reach
+the desired column.
+
+** You can now customize and save comments for faces and variables.
+
+In Custom buffers, a new menu entry allows you to add and edit a comment.
+Comments for variables can also be assigned by calling
+`customize-set-(value|variable)' with a prefix argument.
+
 ** XEmacs now locates the early package hierarchy at ~/.xemacs/packages.
 
 This has changed from simply ~/.xemacs.
@@ -45,11 +65,11 @@
 backward.  If set to non-nil, the "Delete" key will delete forward,
 except on keyboards where a "Backspace" key is not provided.
 
-Unless our implementation has bugs, the only reason why you would want 
+Unless our implementation has bugs, the only reason why you would want
 to set `delete-key-deletes-forward' to nil is if you want to use the
 Delete key to delete backwards, despite the presence (according to
 Xlib) of a BackSpace key on the keyboard.
- 
+
 ** Interactive searching and matching case improvements.
 
 Case sensitiveness in searching operations is normally controlled by
@@ -57,7 +77,7 @@
 searching).  This mechanism has now been slightly improved for
 interactive searches: if the search string (or regexp) contains
 uppercase characters, the searching is forced to be case-sensitive,
-`case-fold-search'.   
+`case-fold-search'.
 
 The new behavior affects all functions performing interactive
 searches, like `zap-to-char', `list-matching-lines', `tags-search'