diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
index 8313c87..ff64af0 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
@@ -507,7 +507,7 @@
 bug fixes.  Here's a partial list of the most notable changes, sorted
 alphabetically by module name. Consult the
 \file{Misc/NEWS} file in the source tree for a more
-complete list of changes, or look through the CVS logs for all the
+complete list of changes, or look through the SVN logs for all the
 details.
 
 \begin{itemize}
@@ -614,6 +614,11 @@
 % patch 918101
 (Contributed by Lars Gust\"abel.)
 
+\item The \module{unicodedata} module has been updated to use version 4.1.0
+of the Unicode character database.  Version 3.2.0 is required 
+by some specifications, so it's still available as 
+\member{unicodedata.db_3_2_0}.
+
 \item A new package \module{xml.etree} has been added, which contains
 a subset of the ElementTree XML library.  Available modules are
 \module{ElementTree}, \module{ElementPath}, and
@@ -696,7 +701,7 @@
 \section{Other Changes and Fixes \label{section-other}}
 
 As usual, there were a bunch of other improvements and bugfixes
-scattered throughout the source tree.  A search through the CVS change
+scattered throughout the source tree.  A search through the SVN change
 logs finds there were XXX patches applied and YYY bugs fixed between
 Python 2.4 and 2.5.  Both figures are likely to be underestimates.