--- NEWS.orig	Sun Dec 14 16:04:18 2003
+++ NEWS	Sun Dec 14 16:04:28 2003
@@ -180,7 +180,10 @@
 
 - urllib2 now supports processors.  A processor is a handler that
   implements an xxx_request or xxx_response method.  These methods are
-  called for all requests.
+  called for all requests.  Backwards incompatibility note: existing code
+  that constructs an OpenerDirector object by means other than
+  build_opener() should call .add_handler(HTTPErrorProcessor) on the
+  OpenerDirector to preserve the old behaviour.
 
 - distutils compilers now compile source files in the same order as
   they are passed to the compiler.