diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 44a18951..91ebaa0d 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ Restore handling of relative values for `database.path` that was
 broken by 0.32. Extend this handling to `database.mail_root`,
 `database.backup_dir`, and `database.hook_dir`.
 
+Reload certain metadata from Xapian database in
+notmuch_database_reopen. This fixes a bug when adding messages to the
+database in a pre-new hook.
+
 Notmuch 0.32 (2021-05-02)
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