--- a/NEWS	Mon Aug 17 00:34:10 2009 +0000
+++ b/NEWS	Mon Aug 17 00:49:44 2009 +0000
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 Our development blog is available at: http://planet.pidgin.im
 
+2.5.9 (08/18/2009):
+	John:  This release is just a crash fix release to address a security
+	issue reported to us by CORE and a couple crashes Elliott found.
+
 2.5.8 (06/27/2009):
 	John:  This release is another somewhat rushed bugfix release to fix
 	a number of bugs that have come up since we released Pidgin 2.5.7.