diff --git a/etc/ORG-NEWS b/etc/ORG-NEWS
index 436b5b0ca..065b0da4a 100644
--- a/etc/ORG-NEWS
+++ b/etc/ORG-NEWS
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ becomes
 ,#+INCLUDE: "file.org" export html
 #+END_SRC
 
-
 The following function repairs export blocks and =INCLUDE= keywords
 using previous syntax:
 
@@ -76,6 +75,10 @@ using previous syntax:
                (replace-match "EXPORT \\1" nil nil nil 1)))))))))
 #+END_SRC
 
+Moreover, ~:export-block~ keyword used in ~org-export-define-backend~
+and ~org-export-define-derived-backend~ is no longer used and needs to
+be removed.
+
 *** Footnotes
 **** [1]-like constructs are not valid footnotes
 Using =[1]= as a footnote was already discouraged in the manual, since