--- a/NEWS	Tue May 11 16:01:47 2010 +0000
+++ b/NEWS	Tue May 11 18:52:26 2010 +0000
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
 	patches that have been sitting on Trac forever.  Couple that with some
 	new features and we have an excellent release for all of you!
 
+	Marcus: Finally time for a major release again, seems like it took quite
+	a while this time. But then again, there is some new features in there, like
+	file transfer preview (thumbnails) support (only on MSN so far),
+	plus a lot of bug fixes. Enjoy!
+
 2.6.6 (02/18/2010):
 	Mark: This release includes some great little changes and fixes a few
 	security-related bugs.  See the ChangeLog for details.