diff --git a/NEWS.rst b/NEWS.rst
index c949cb941b..e992fbe471 100644
--- a/NEWS.rst
+++ b/NEWS.rst
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@ v6.8.0 (unreleased)
     The auto-alignment logic was removed in v6.7.0 in favor of requiring the
     size provided by the user to be already aligned; however, this had the
     unintended consequence of breaking some existing guests. v6.8.0 restores
-    the previous behavior.
+    the previous behavior with an improvement: it also reflects the auto-aligned
+    value in the domain XML.
 
 * **Bug fixes**