diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
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--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2012-12-19  Steve Ellcey  <sellcey@mips.com>
+
+	* NEWS:  Mention new memcpy for MIPS. 
+
 2012-12-18  Marcus Shawcroft  <marcus.shawcroft@linaro.org>
 
 	* manual/contrib.texi (Contributors): Spelling correction.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Version 2.17
   14838, 14856, 14863, 14865, 14866, 14868, 14869, 14871, 14872, 14879,
   14889, 14893, 14898, 14914.
 
+* Optimization of memcpy for MIPS.
+
 * CVE-2011-4609 svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept fails with
   EMFILE has been fixed (Bugzilla #14889).