diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
index c6df2c3..0f0df28 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/NEWS.txt
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
   Raphael suggested correcting this so pdb's postmortem pm() would work. 
   IDLEfork Patch 844675
 
+- IDLE now does not fail to save the file anymore if the Tk buffer is not a
+  Unicode string, yet eol_convention is.  Python Bugs 774680, 788378
+
 - IDLE didn't start correctly when Python was installed in "Program Files" on
   W2K and XP.  Python Bugs 780451, 784183
 
@@ -57,6 +60,16 @@
 
 *Release date: 29-Jun-2003*
 
+- Extend AboutDialog.ViewFile() to support file encodings.  Make the CREDITS
+  file Latin-1.
+
+- Updated the About dialog to reflect re-integration into Python.  Provide
+  buttons to display Python's NEWS, License, and Credits, plus additional
+  buttons for IDLE's README and NEWS.
+
+- TextViewer() now has a third parameter which allows inserting text into the
+  viewer instead of reading from a file.
+
 - (Created the .../Lib/idlelib directory in the Python CVS, which is a clone of
   IDLEfork modified to install in the Python environment.  The code in the
   interrupt module has been moved to thread.interrupt_main(). )
diff --git a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
index 448d905..1731166 100644
--- a/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
+++ b/Lib/idlelib/idlever.py
@@ -1 +1 @@
-IDLE_VERSION = "1.0"
+IDLE_VERSION = "1.1a0"