diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6ee25412..63c78989 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,12 @@ Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send GNU tar bug reports to <bug-tar@gnu.org>
+
+version 1.15.1 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-21
+
+This version fixes a bug introduced in 1.15 which caused 
+tar to refuse to extract files from standard input.
+
 
 version 1.15 - Sergey Poznyakoff, 2004-12-20