diff --git a/source/texk/web2c/luatexdir/NEWS b/source/texk/web2c/luatexdir/NEWS
index c2b6873258ae7634ca5dfc3735c9e309d85f4c38..823d318e6d9d55d584f4fef8abcc6fb1c856293b 100644
--- a/source/texk/web2c/luatexdir/NEWS
+++ b/source/texk/web2c/luatexdir/NEWS
@@ -11,6 +11,9 @@ LuaTeX 1.16.0 2023-02-18
 - More efficient <tt>\fontdimen</tt> allocation.
 - Ignore paragraphs with only a local par node followed by direction
 synchronization nodes.
+- configurable default family
+- improved r2l annotation areas
+- support for deferred literals and specials