diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 2e1b616c5d..a59c554f61 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ Improve Performance of soil canopy model
 Add base global soil canopy run to benchmark and experiments
 - PR [#591] adds benchmark run
 - PR [#669] adds topmodel runoff
-
+Misc
+- PR [#685] Renames jacobian update functions to align with our convention
+            for tendency functions
 v0.12.4
 --------
 - Fix various canopy flux bugs