diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7129b293d5..d5bc07ebba 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ Changed Functionality
 
 - TODO: what SSH events got changed or removed?
 
+- Log files now escape non-printable characters consistently as "\xXX'.
+  Furthermore, backslashes are escaped as "\\", making the
+  representation fully reversible.
+
 Deprecated Functionality
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