diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
index f8b5ff5de..1bb3defd3 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-12-07  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* new-features.xml (ov-new1.7.26): Add new section.
+
 2013-11-29  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* new-features.xml (ov-new1.7.26): Fix section ID and title.  Add
diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
index affcc6f5f..38854aa67 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
@@ -4,6 +4,21 @@
 
 <sect1 id="ov-new1.7"><title>What's new and what changed in Cygwin 1.7</title>
 
+<sect2 id="ov-new1.7.27"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.26 to 1.7.27</title>
+
+<itemizedlist mark="bullet">
+
+<listitem><para>
+Don't create native symlinks with target paths having long path prefixes
+"\\?\" if the target path is shorter than MAX_PATH characters.  This works
+around a Windows 8.1 bug:  The ShellExecuteW fails if the lpFile parameter
+points to a native NTFS symlink with a target path prefixed with "\\?\".
+</para></listitem>
+
+</itemizedlist>
+
+</sect2>
+
 <sect2 id="ov-new1.7.26"><title>What's new and what changed from 1.7.25 to 1.7.26</title>
 
 <itemizedlist mark="bullet">