diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+strongswan-4.2.4
+----------------
+
+- Added statistics functions to ip pool --status and ip pool --leases
+  and input validation checks to various ip pool commands.
+
+
 strongswan-4.2.3
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