diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 75e2c1bf98a..02f76d4d403 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -249,6 +249,11 @@ When non-nil, 'switch-to-buffer' uses 'pop-to-buffer-same-window' that
 respects display actions specified by 'display-buffer-alist' and
 'display-buffer-overriding-action'.
 
++++
+** New convenience functions in the seq.el library.  The new
+convenience functions 'seq-first' and 'seq-rest' give easy access to
+respectively the first and all but the first elements of sequences.
+
 
 * Editing Changes in Emacs 27.1