diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/gnome/news.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/gnome/news.xml
index 740b26b7ac..a52ec184ea 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/gnome/news.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/gnome/news.xml
@@ -19,6 +19,27 @@ News//EN"
 <news>
     <cvs:keyword xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS">$FreeBSD$</cvs:keyword>
 
+  <year>
+    <name>2016</name>
+
+    <month>
+      <name>January</name>
+
+      <day>
+        <name>25</name>
+
+        <event>
+          <title>Announcing MATE 1.12 for FreeBSD!</title>
+
+          <p>The FreeBSD GNOME team proudly presents MATE 1.12 for FreeBSD.</p>
+
+          <p>This version is still build against GTK+ 2, and has a number
+            of bugfixes for the applets.</p>
+        </event>
+      </day>
+    </month>
+  </year>
+
   <year>
     <name>2015</name>