diff --git a/en/gnome/news.xml b/en/gnome/news.xml
index cd84d6f0b4..db4e961092 100644
--- a/en/gnome/news.xml
+++ b/en/gnome/news.xml
@@ -21,13 +21,35 @@
 <news>
   <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
     <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
-      $FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/news.xml,v 1.75 2004/09/16 21:32:46 marcus Exp $
+      $FreeBSD: www/en/gnome/news.xml,v 1.76 2004/09/17 17:50:42 marcus Exp $
     </cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
   <year>
     <name>2004</name>
     	<month>
+	    	<name>October</name>
+
+		<day>
+		    <name>26</name>
+
+		    <event>
+			<title>GNOME 2.8.1 available for FreeBSD</title>
+
+			<p>Although a bit late with the news release, GNOME
+			    2.8.1 was released on October 26th, and FreeBSD
+			    ports have been
+			    <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html">available</a>
+			    since then.  Packages are also up on the
+			    <a href="http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q21">Tinderbox</a> server.
+			    We are still holding off on the FreeBSD ports tree
+			    merge until after 5.3 is released.</p>
+		    </event>
+		</day>
+
+	    </month>
+
+	    <month>
 	    	<name>September</name>
 
 		<day>