diff --git a/share/xml/news.xml b/share/xml/news.xml
index 31acafa2f3..98e4575854 100644
--- a/share/xml/news.xml
+++ b/share/xml/news.xml
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@
       <day>
 	<name>1</name>
 
+        <event>
+          <p>New committer:
+            <a href="mailto:cmt@FreeBSD.org">Christoph Moench-Tegeder</a>
+            (ports)</p>
+        </event>
+
 	<event>
 	  <title>FreeBSD Project to participate in Google Summer of
 	    Code 2016</title>