diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7734e894..09f29787 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -23,6 +23,11 @@ xx/10/2003 - 1.8.0beta - Work in progress.
 	  instead of to the position in the attribute list at which to insert.
 	- Added man pages for the new utilities (Richard Russon and me).
 	- Lots of extensions and cleanups to ntfsls.
+	- Move common bits from disk_io.c into device.c and rename the Unix io
+	  specific code that remains to unix_io.c to complement win32_io.c.
+	- Integrate win32_io.c into the build process so win32_io ops are used
+	  when compiling under Cygwin and standard Unix style io ops are used
+	  otherwise.
 	- Other assorted bugfixes and developments (see NEWS and bk changes).
 
 13/02/2003 - 1.7.1 - Urgent bug fixes.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 411e019e..7da8e748 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@ Russon, ntfsinfo by Matthew Fanto, ntfsls originally by Lode Leroy, modified
 by Anton Altaparmakov.
 
 Library internal enhancements and API additions.  Of particular note is the
-device io abstraction layer and the addition of the win32 device operations
-(these haven't been integrated in the build process yet but do work when
-integrated manually).  Thanks to Lode Leroy for the win32 code.
+device io abstraction layer and the addition of the win32 device operations.
+(Note the win32 device operations are read only and incomplete but should
+allow running of simple read-only ntfs utilities under Cygwin.)  Thanks to
+Lode Leroy for the win32 code.
 
 
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