diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Command Line Interface
 Emacs
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+The minimum supported major version of Emacs is now 24.
+
 Support for GNU Emacs older than 25.1 is deprecated with this release,
 and may be removed in a future release.