diff --git a/en/news/news.xml b/en/news/news.xml
index eeb86c2022..7852ecfbfd 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 1.395 2006/05/09 02:57:50 murray Exp $
+      $FreeBSD: www/en/news/news.xml,v 1.396 2006/05/09 03:26:25 murray Exp $
     </cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
@@ -30,6 +30,21 @@
 
     <month>
       <name>5</name>
+      
+      <day>
+        <name>16</name>
+
+        <event>
+	  <title>FreeBSD 5.5-RC1 Available</title>
+
+	  <p>The first and most likely last release candidate of
+	    FreeBSD 5.5 is now <a
+	    href="http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-May/025589.html">available</a>.
+	    The RC1 ISO images are 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>8</name>