diff --git a/share/sgml/news.xml b/share/sgml/news.xml
index facfd2028c..731004dd96 100644
--- a/share/sgml/news.xml
+++ b/share/sgml/news.xml
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 <news>
   <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
     <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
-      $FreeBSD: www/share/sgml/news.xml,v 1.199 2008/09/22 21:57:53 rnoland Exp $
+      $FreeBSD: www/share/sgml/news.xml,v 1.200 2008/10/06 13:59:02 lstewart Exp $
     </cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
@@ -35,6 +35,21 @@
     <month>
       <name>10</name>
 
+      <day>
+	<name>12</name>
+
+	<event>
+	  <title>FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 Available</title>
+
+	  <p>The first release candidate of FreeBSD 6.4 is now <a
+	      href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-October/045869.html">available</a>.
+	    ISO images for Tier-1 architectures are now available on
+	    most of the <a
+	      href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html">
+	      FreeBSD mirror sites</a>.</p>
+	</event>
+      </day>
+
       <day>
         <name>6</name>