diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 26046cf96ba..18b8b5ed63f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
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 #
 
-## 1.4.0-rc1 (October 4, 2018)
+## 1.4.0-rc1 (October 15, 2018)
 
 Features:
 - Improved support for installation with latest ROCm
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Features:
 - Adding support for CUDA IPC for intra-node GPU
 - Added support for CUDA memory allocation cache for mem-type detection
 - Added support for latest Mellanox devices
+- Added support for Nvidia GPU managed memory
 - Added support for multiple connections between the same pair of workers
 - Added support large worker address for client/server connection establishment
   and INADDR_ANY
@@ -25,6 +26,8 @@ Bugfixes:
 - Memory hook fixes
 - Clang support fixes
 - Self tl multi-rail fix
+- Thread safety fixes in IB/RDMA transport
+- Compilation fixes with upstream rdma-core
 - Multiple minor bugfixes (full list on github)
 
 Tested configurations: