diff --git a/sm5/NEWS b/sm5/NEWS
index 28a38573766448da6e2f05f52a9c7ed8fee10c12..deab3c8df7d12de429cc69eebb04da08052b7853 100644
--- a/sm5/NEWS
+++ b/sm5/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 smartmontools NEWS
 ------------------
-CVS ID: $Id: NEWS,v 1.19 2004/03/06 19:43:17 ballen4705 Exp $
+CVS ID: $Id: NEWS,v 1.20 2004/04/07 15:40:22 ballen4705 Exp $
 
 The most up-to-date version of this file is:
 http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/smartmontools/sm5/NEWS?sortby=date&view=markup
@@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ Summary: smartmontools release 5.30 (STABLE)
 --------------------------------------------
 This is a stable release of smartmontools: the first stable release
 since 5.26.
-
+- KNOWN BUG (identified/fixed by CF): smartd will segv and crash if
+  the configuration file /etc/smartd.conf contains NO valid entries.
+  This bug was introduced in version 1.259 of smartd.c by BA and
+  is present in smartmontools releases 5.27-5.30 inclusive.
 
 Date: 2003-2-24
 Summary: smartmontools release 5.29 (Experimental, not STABLE)