* NEWS: Update 4.3 with information on .SILENT / -s
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index df1a4dc..c3c1025 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
https://sv.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?group=make&report_id=111&fix_release_id=109&set=custom
-* GNU Make can now be built for MS-Windows using the Tiny C's tcc compiler.
+* GNU Make can now be built for MS-Windows using the Tiny C tcc compiler.
Version 4.3 (19 Jan 2020)
@@ -44,6 +44,14 @@
already contains some value. Similarly, appending an empty string does not
add a trailing space.
+* WARNING: Backward-incompatibility!
+ Previously using the .SILENT pseudo-target in a makefile would force all
+ sub-makes to be invoked with the '-s' option, effectively making all
+ sub-makes silent as well. In this release, .SILENT only has effect for the
+ current invocation of make. As a side-effect of this, .SILENT no longer has
+ a side-effect of enabling the --no-print-directory option, which using -s
+ will do.
+
* NOTE: Deprecated behavior.
Contrary to the documentation, suffix rules with prerequisites are being
treated BOTH as simple targets AND as pattern rules. Further, the
