diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 04a75cd6f..7f0c8e275 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
 
 * Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
 
+** Bug fixes
+
+  nproc --all is now guaranteed to be as large as the count
+  of available processors, which may not have been the case
+  on GNU/Linux systems with neither /proc nor /sys available.
+  [bug introduced in coreutils-8.1]
+
 ** Build-related
 
   Work around a build failure when using buggy <sys/capability.h>.
diff --git a/gnulib b/gnulib
index c535f4489..0a68a3d85 160000
--- a/gnulib
+++ b/gnulib
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit c535f4489b41f28afd115ae331d69595ea41b6a1
+Subproject commit 0a68a3d852c46f4d23bb0239c0e9f3398d71823f