--- a/etc/NEWS.7.md	Thu Mar 17 13:41:19 2022 -0400
+++ b/etc/NEWS.7.md	Fri Mar 18 09:36:42 2022 -0400
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-Summary of important user-visible changes for version 7 (2022-01-05)
+Summary of important user-visible changes for version 7 (2022-03-18)
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 ### General improvements
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@
 same number of digits for each value such as
 `[0x00_00_01; 0x00_01_00; 0x01_00_00]`.
 
+- The colon operator now works for integer (int8, int16, ..., uint64)
+and single data types.  However, only double ranges use a
+memory-efficient storage scheme internally.  Other data types are
+stored as ordinary arrays.
+
 - The increment and decrement operators `++` and `--` must "hug" their
 corresponding variables.  In previous versions of Octave, whitespaces
 between these operators and the variable they affect were allowed.  That