diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 2bb419ea129..8ed16cfeeff 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1536,6 +1536,11 @@ value of this option for the current invocation of 'man'.
 
 ** DocView
 
+---
+*** New user option 'doc-view-mpdf-use-svg'.
+If non-nil, DocView uses SVG images to display PDF documents.  The
+default is non-nil if your system supports display of SVG images.
+
 ---
 *** New face 'doc-view-svg-face'.
 This replaces 'doc-view-svg-foreground' and 'doc-view-svg-background'.