diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.committers.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.committers.xml
index 35f03c8517..13ec8d1d09 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.committers.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/contrib.committers.xml
@@ -954,6 +954,10 @@
       <para>&a.simon.email;</para>
     </listitem>
 
+    <listitem>
+      <para>&a.tychon.email;</para>
+    </listitem>
+
     <listitem>
       <para>&a.rnoland.email;</para>
     </listitem>
diff --git a/share/xml/authors.ent b/share/xml/authors.ent
index d805f6f5e0..93e0fa4bdf 100644
--- a/share/xml/authors.ent
+++ b/share/xml/authors.ent
@@ -2109,6 +2109,9 @@
 <!ENTITY a.twinterg "Thomas Wintergerst">
 <!ENTITY a.twinterg.email "&a.twinterg; <email xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>twinterg@FreeBSD.org</email>">
 
+<!ENTITY a.tychon "Tycho Nightingale">
+<!ENTITY a.tychon.email "&a.tychon; <email xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>tychon@FreeBSD.org</email>">
+
 <!ENTITY a.uch "Yasushi UCHIYAMA">
 <!ENTITY a.uch.email "&a.uch; <email xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'>uch@FreeBSD.org</email>">
 
diff --git a/share/xml/news.xml b/share/xml/news.xml
index c861d8aa2a..91efa99df5 100644
--- a/share/xml/news.xml
+++ b/share/xml/news.xml
@@ -35,6 +35,11 @@
 
       <day>
         <name>21</name>
+	<event>
+	  <p>New committer:
+	      <a href="mailto:tychon@FreeBSD.org">Tycho Nightingale</a> (src)</p>
+	</event>
+
 	<event>
 	  <p>New committer:
 	      <a href="mailto:grembo@FreeBSD.org">Michael Gmelin</a> (ports)</p>