diff --git a/eo/NEWS b/eo/NEWS
index 28b25cb4..369682af 100644
--- a/eo/NEWS
+++ b/eo/NEWS
@@ -1,5 +1,22 @@
 * current version
-  - fixed compilation issues in Microsoft Visual C++
+    - features:
+        - delete the deprecated code parts (was marked as deprecated in the release 1.1)
+        - eoSignal: a class to handle signal with eoCheckpoint instances
+        - eoDetSingleBitFlip: bit flip mutation that changes exactly k bits while checking for duplicate
+        - eoFunctorStat: a wrapper to turn any stand-alone function and into an eoStat
+        - generilazed the output of an eoState: now you can change the format, comes with defaults formatting (latex and json)
+        - eoWrongParamTypeException: a new exception to handle cases where a wrong template is given to eoParser::valueOf
+        - added a getParam method to the eoParser, that raise an exception if the parameter has not been declared
+        - eoParserLogger features are now included in the default eoParser
+    - build system:
+        - improvements of the build architecture
+        - create PKGBUILD file for archlinux package manager
+        - a FindEO module for CMake
+    - bugfixes:
+        - fixed regression with gcc 4.7
+        - fixed compilation issues in Microsoft Visual C++, related to time measurement
+        - added several asserts accross the framework (note: asserts are included only in debug mode)
+        - lot of small bugfixes :-)
 
 * release 1.2  (16. May. 2011)
   - fixed the incremental allocation issue in variation operators which were
@@ -21,11 +38,11 @@
   - GCC 4.3 compatibility
   - new versatile log system with several nested verbose levels
   - classes using intern verbose parameters marked as deprecated, please update your code accordingly if you use one of the following files:
-	eo/src/eoCombinedInit.h
-	eo/src/eoGenContinue.h
-	eo/src/eoProportionalCombinedOp.h
-	eo/src/utils/eoData.h
-	eo/src/utils/eoStdoutMonitor.h
+        eo/src/eoCombinedInit.h
+        eo/src/eoGenContinue.h
+        eo/src/eoProportionalCombinedOp.h
+        eo/src/utils/eoData.h
+        eo/src/utils/eoStdoutMonitor.h
   - an evaluator that throw an exception if a maximum eval numbers has been reached, independently of the number of generations
   - new monitor that can write on any ostream
   - new continuator that can catch POSIX system user signals