diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6c9dfab6b..7a7e4c11a 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ New in spot 0.8.3a:
       with rules for PSL operators (and some new LTL rules as well).
       See doc/tl/tl.pdf for the list of the rewritings implemented.
     - Some of these rewritings that may produce larger formulas
-      (For instance to rewrite "{a;b;c}" as "a & X(b & Xc)".)
+      (for instance to rewrite "{a;b;c}" into "a & X(b & Xc)")
       may be explicitely disabled with a new option.
     - The src/ltltest/randltl tool can now generate random SEREs
       and random PSL formulae.
@@ -23,21 +23,27 @@ New in spot 0.8.3a:
       translation from SERE to DFA is likely to be rewriten in a
       future version.
     - A new function, length_boolone(), computes the size of an
-      LTL/PSL formula while considering that any Boolean term
-      has length 1.
+      LTL/PSL formula while considering that any Boolean term has
+      length 1.
+    - The LTL/PSL parser recognizes some UTF-8 characters (like ◇ or
+      ∧) as operators, and some output routines now have an UTF-8
+      output mode.  Tools like randltl and ltl2tgba have gained an -8
+      option to enable such output.  See doc/tl/tl.pdf for the list
+      of recognized codepoints.
     - A new direct simulation reduction has been implemented.  It
       works directly on TGBAs.  It is in src/tgbaalgos/simlation.hh,
       and it can be tested via ltl2tgba's -RDS option.
     - changes to the on-line translator:
       + SVG output is available
       + can display some properties of a formula
-      + new options for direct simulation and larger rewritings
+      + new options for direct simulation, larger rewritings, and
+        utf-8 output
     - configure --without-included-lbtt will prevent LBTT from being
       configured and built.  This helps on systems (such as MinGW)
       where LBTT cannot be built.  The test-suite will skip any
       LBTT-based test if LBTT is missing.
   * Interface changes:
-    - Operators ->, <->, U, W, R, and M are no parsed as
+    - Operators ->, <->, U, W, R, and M are now parsed as
       right-associative to better match the PSL standard.
     - The new entry point for LTL/PSL simplifications is the function
       ltl_simplifier::simplify() declared in src/ltlvisit/simplify.hh.