diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 0115322c..ce7695a2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -39,6 +39,13 @@ Stopped `notmuch dump` failing if someone writes to the database
   `post-new`. There's also a new option `notmuch insert --no-hooks` to
   skip the hook. See the notmuch-hooks(1) man page for details.
 
+`notmuch deliver` is deprecated
+
+  With this release we believe that `notmuch insert` has reached
+  parity with `notmuch deliver`. We recommend that all users of
+  `notmuch deliver` switch to `notmuch insert` as the former is
+  currently unmaintained.
+
 `notmuch search` now supports `--duplicate=N` option with `--output=messages`
 
   Complementing the `notmuch search --duplicate=N --output=files`