diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 7bd99870..98e07eb4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -48,6 +48,20 @@ Search avoids opening and parsing message files
 	notmuch new
 	notmuch restore notmuch.dump
 
+New collection of add-on tools
+------------------------------
+
+The source directory "contrib" contains tools built on notmuch.  These
+tools are not part of notmuch, and you should check their individual
+licenses.  Feel free to report problems with them to the notmuch
+mailing list.
+
+nmbug - share tags with a given prefix
+
+   nmbug helps maintain a git repo containing all tags with a given
+   prefix (by default "notmuch::"). Tags can be shared by commiting
+   them to git in one location and restoring in another.
+
 Notmuch 0.9 (2011-10-01)
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