diff --git a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
index 4ead25882..a85e8168c 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2009-03-24  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
+
+	* new-features.sgml: Add section about chaged (no)winsymlink default.
+
 2009-03-24  Corinna Vinschen  <corinna@vinschen.de>
 
 	* cygwinenv.sgml: Move "codepage:xxx" to the removed options section.
diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml
index 4f8db0f02..cae0b492e 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml
+++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.sgml
@@ -75,6 +75,10 @@
 
 - New open(2) flags O_DIRECTORY, O_EXEC and O_SEARCH.
 
+- Make the original style symlinks (file with SYSTEM attribute set)
+  default again when creating symlinks.  Only create Windows shortcut
+  style symlinks if CYGWIN=winsymlinks is set in the environment.
+
 - Handle NTFS native symlinks available since Vista/2008 as symlinks
   (but don't create Vista/2008 symlinks due to unfortunate OS restrictions).