diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 2b1fad9e85f..71c0fd728bd 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2015-08-28  Simon Marchi  <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Update entry about non-8-bits addressable memory.
+
 2015-08-28  Ulrich Weigand  <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
 
 	Revert:
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 5918f147698..12282c7b687 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ show remote multiprocess-extensions-packet
   target ppcbug		PPCBUG ROM monitor for PowerPC
 
 * Support for reading/writing memory and extracting values on architectures
-  with non-8-bits-addressable memory.
+  whose memory is addressable in units of any integral multiple of 8 bits.
 
 *** Changes in GDB 7.10