diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9e661dfbe..4d9e2cc0e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ strongswan-4.3.0
 - The IKEv2 charon daemon can now configure the ESP CAMELLIA-CBC
   cipher (esp=camellia128|192|256).
 
+- Refactored the pluto and scepclient code to use basic functions
+  (memory allocation, leak detective, printf_hooks, ASN.1 parser, etc.)
+  from a libstrongswan-lite library.
+
 
 strongswan-4.2.14
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