diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8e620eb3..f76d0f31 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,8 +3,9 @@ xbps-0.16 (???):
  * Always require an underscore at package versions, if any provided
    pkgver (i.e 'foo-1.0_1') does not contain an underscore the name/version
    won't be detected for a string. That means that now any package can contain
-   any character in pkgname and version, and as bonus there's no need to
-   make some tricks to perform installation of exact package versions.
+   any character in pkgname and all characters in version except hyphens ('-'),
+   and as bonus there's no need to make some tricks to perform installation
+   of exact package versions.
 
  * xbps-bin(8): the 'install' target now can (re)install an exact package
    version as specified on its arguments, i.e: