Shell was not colorizing due to bug introduced at r57998, Bug 1586.
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index 0966152..d340e66 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,20 @@
+What's New in IDLE 3.0a3?
+=========================
+
+*Release date: XX-XXX-200X*
+
+- CodeContext was not importing.
+
+- Corrected two 3.0 compatibility errors reported by Mark Summerfield:
+ http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-December/011491.html
+
+- Shell was not colorizing due to bug introduced at r57998, Bug 1586.
+
+
What's New in IDLE 3.0a2?
=========================
-*Release date: XX-XXX-2007*
+*Release date: 06-Dec-2007*
- Windows EOL sequence not converted correctly, encoding error.
Caused file save to fail. Bug 1130.
@@ -28,7 +41,7 @@
What's New in IDLE 2.6a1?
=========================
-*Release date: XX-XXX-200X* UNRELEASED, but merged into 3.0a1
+*Release date: XX-XXX-200X* UNRELEASED, but merged into 3.0
- tabpage.py updated: tabbedPages.py now supports multiple dynamic rows
of tabs. Patch 1612746 Tal Einat.