diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index 9032e13d85..8593ee56b3 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -100,6 +100,8 @@ Features
     - Hadoop: ColumnFamilyRecordReader has a wide-row mode, enabled via
       a boolean parameter to setInputColumnFamily, that pages through
       data column-at-a-time instead of row-at-a-time.
+    - Pig: can use the wide-row Hadoop support, by setting PIG_WIDEROW_INPUT
+      to true.  This will produce each row's columns in a bag.