--- code/trunk/NEWS	2008/01/21 14:57:19	308
+++ code/trunk/NEWS	2008/01/21 15:22:09	309
@@ -1,6 +1,14 @@
 News about PCRE releases
 ------------------------
 
+Release 7.6 21-Jan-08
+---------------------
+
+The main reason for having this release so soon after 7.5 is because it fixes a
+potential buffer overflow problem in pcre_compile() when run in UTF-8 mode. In
+addition, the CMake configuration files have been brought up to date.
+
+
 Release 7.5 10-Jan-08
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