diff --git a/en/news/news.xml b/en/news/news.xml
index 59c37ffa04..55964735ac 100644
--- a/en/news/news.xml
+++ b/en/news/news.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 <news>
   <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
     <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
-      $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.243 2004/11/15 18:31:02 jkois Exp $
+      $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.244 2004/11/19 19:59:48 carvay Exp $
     </cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
@@ -51,6 +51,20 @@
 	  </event>
 	</day>
 
+	<day>
+	  <name>7</name>
+
+	  <event>
+	    <title>GNOME 2.8.1 released for FreeBSD</title>
+
+	    <p>GNOME 2.8.1 was merged into the ports tree
+	      following the release of FreeBSD 5.3.  See
+	      the <a href="gnome/index.html">FreeBSD GNOME
+	        Homepage</a> for more details as well
+	      as upgrade instructions.</p>
+	  </event>
+	</day>
+
 	<day>
 	  <name>6</name>