diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2e5eba7cc23..88477ad30ae 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,9 +11,11 @@
 
 Supported platforms
   - Shared memory: KNEM, CMA, XPMEM, SYSV, Posix
-  - RDMA interconnects with VERBs interface (InfiniBand, RoCE, iWarp, Omni-Path),
-    Cray Gemini, Cray Aries
-  - Architectures: x86_64, ARMv8, Power64
+  - VERBs over InfiniBand and RoCE.
+    VERBS over other RDMA interconnects (iWarp, OmniPath, etc.) is available
+    for community evaluation and has not been tested in context of this release
+  - Cray Gemini and Aries
+  - Architectures: x86_64, ARMv8 (64bit), Power64
 Features:
   - Added support for InfiniBand DC and UD transports, including accelerated verbs for Mellanox devices
   - Full support for PGAS/SHMEM interfaces, blocking and non-blocking APIs
@@ -23,7 +25,7 @@ Features:
   - Flow control for DC/RC
   - Dataypes support: contiguous, IOV, generic
   - Multi-threading support
-  - Support for ARMv8 architecture
+  - Support for ARMv8 64bit architecture
   - A new API for efficient memory polling
   - Support for malloc-hooks and memory registration caching
 Bugfixes: