diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a2a4c035..f8aa1ef0 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@ NEWS
  - fix bug #4455 runtime bug in perl binding on debian wheezy 32bits #
  - fix warning on g_type_init() on GLib > 2.36
 
-2.4.0 - June 6th 2011
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+2.4.0 - January 7th 2014
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 281 commits, 933 files changed, 45384 insertions, 6313 deletions
 
 Minor version number increase since ABI was extended (new methods).