diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7c870e1a5..340b218a3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 New in spot 2.2.1.dev (Not yet released)
 
-  Nothing yet.
+  Bug fixes:
+
+  * scc_filter() had a left-over print statement that would print
+    "names" when copying the name of the states.
 
 New in spot 2.2.1 (2016-11-21)
 
diff --git a/spot/twaalgos/sccfilter.cc b/spot/twaalgos/sccfilter.cc
index 5eabfbc98..d88f44b19 100644
--- a/spot/twaalgos/sccfilter.cc
+++ b/spot/twaalgos/sccfilter.cc
@@ -334,7 +334,6 @@ namespace spot
       if (auto* names =
           aut->get_named_prop<std::vector<std::string>>("state-names"))
         {
-          std::cerr << "names\n";
           unsigned size = names->size();
           if (size > in_n)
             size = in_n;