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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index f9ee001294f..687beda0f21 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -113,6 +113,17 @@ If you have been using these variables in Lisp code (for example, in
 font-lock rules), simply quote the symbol, to use the face directly
 instead of its now-obsolete variable.
 
+** New minor mode 'electric-block-comment-mode'
+This mode automatically close block comment, typing `block-comment-start'
+closes it inserting their corresponding `block-comment-end'.
+Thus, allows closing block comments for major modes that support it,
+such as:
+- c-mode, c++-mode, java-mode, js-mode, css-mode, and derived
+- html-mode, mhtml-mode, xml-mode and nxml-mode
+- pascal-mode
+- lua-ts-mode
+- lisp-mode and common-lisp-mode
+
 ** Network Security Manager (NSM) is now more strict.
 
 *** NSM warns about TLS 1.1 by default.