diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 1bbb0cbefd2..8f5da370b28 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -313,9 +313,10 @@ determine whether to create a menu-bar or tool-bar, respectively.
 If the alist entries are added, they override the value of
 `menu-bar-mode'/`tool-bar-mode'.
 
-** Mouse dragging is not any differently from active regions.
-The internal variables `mouse-drag-overlay', and the internal function
-`mouse-move-drag-overlay' and `mouse-show-mark', have been deleted.
+** Regions created by mouse dragging are now normal active regions,
+similar to the ones created by shift-selection.  In previous Emacs
+versions, these regions were delineated by `mouse-drag-overlay', which
+has now been removed.
 
 
 * Lisp changes in Emacs 24.1