diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 6a3687e8..1b95663f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ xbps-0.53 (2018-04-30
  * libxbps: share workload more efficient between threads and avoid idling
    threads (@Gottox)
 
+ * xbps-rindex(1): By default xbps-rindex will not check hashes while cleaning
+   to enable hash checking. To enable the old behavior the user can supply the
+   --hashcheck flag (@Gottox)
+
 xbps-0.52 (2018-04-30):
 
  * xbps-checkvers(1): avoid infinite loops while checking revers by @ebfe #250