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diff --git a/WHATSNEW.txt b/WHATSNEW.txt
index 3a50d27d034..ebd17129a84 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW.txt
+++ b/WHATSNEW.txt
@@ -1,23 +1,12 @@
-          WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18alpha13 Dec 15th 1997
-          ========================================
+          WHATS NEW IN 1.9.18 - January 7th 1998.
+          =======================================
 
-This is NOT a production release of Samba code.
-For production servers please run Samba 1.9.17p4
-or later releases in the 1.9.17 series.
+This is the latest stable release of Samba. This is the
+version that all production Samba servers should be running
+for all current bug-fixes.
 
-In this release (1.9.18alpha13) the Domain controller 
-code should not be turned on. The Domain controller 
-code stream is now being developed in a separate code 
-development branch. To participate in this important 
-work, send an email to :
-
-samba-bugs@samba.anu.edu.au
-
-to get instructions on how to gain access to
-the latest Domain controller code.
-
-This release contains three major changes to the 
-1.9.17 series and much re-written code.
+This release contains several major changes and much re-written 
+code.
 
 The main changes are :
 
@@ -84,6 +73,24 @@ Please see the new man page for make_smbcodepage
 for details on adding additional client code page
 support.
 
+4). New Printing support.
+-------------------------
+
+An implementation of the Windows 95 automatic printer
+driver installation has been added to smbd. To use this
+new feature please read the document:
+
+docs/PRINTER_DRIVER.txt
+
+Thanks to Jean-Francois Micouleau, and also Herb Lewis
+of Silicon Graphics for this new code.
+
+Printer support on System V systems (notably Solaris)
+has been improved with the addition of code generously
+donated by Norm Jacobs of Sun Microsystems. Sun have
+also made a Solaris SPARC workstation available to the
+Samba Team to aid in their porting efforts.
+
 
 Changed code.
 -------------
@@ -99,20 +106,6 @@ may now be used without recompiling.
 Much of the internals of Samba has been re-structured
 to support the oplock and Domain controller changes.
 
-An implementation of the Windows 95 automatic printer
-driver installation has been added to smbd. To use this
-new feature please read the document:
-
-docs/PRINTER_DRIVER.txt 
-
-Thanks to Jean-Francois Micouleau for this new code.
-
-Printer support on System V systems (notably Solaris)
-has been improved with the addition of code generously
-donated by Norm Jacobs of Sun Microsystems. Sun have
-also made a Solaris SPARC workstation available to the
-Samba Team to aid in their porting efforts.
-
 Samba now contains an implementation of share modes
 using System V shared memory as well as the mmap()
 based code. This was done to allow the 'FAST_SHARE_MODES'
@@ -183,6 +176,15 @@ Nascent web interface for configuration.
 source/wsmbconf.c is a cgi-bin program for editing smb.conf. It can
 also be run standalone. This is in a very early stage of development.
 
+Debugging support.
+------------------
+
+smbd and nmbd will now modify their debug log level when
+they receive a USR1 signal (increase debug level by one)
+and USR2 signal (decrease debug level by one). This has
+been added to aid administrators track down faults that
+only occur after long periods of time, or transiently.
+
 Reporting bugs.
 ---------------