--- a/NEWS	Thu Mar 03 09:29:04 2011 -0800
+++ b/NEWS	Thu Mar 03 09:46:00 2011 -0800
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
  ** The PCRE library is now required to build Octave.
 
  ** New functions added.
+
     iscolumn
     issrow
  
@@ -24,6 +25,13 @@
       spchol              splchol      unmark_command
       spchol2inv          split        unmark_rawcommand
 
+    The following functions have been deprecated in Octave 3.6 and will
+    be removed from Octave 3.10 (or whatever version is the second major
+    release after 3.6):
+
+      is_duplicate_entry
+      
+
 Summary of important user-visible changes for version 3.4:
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