diff --git a/AUTHORS.txt b/AUTHORS.txt
index 515eb20e2f12b44c2b52f899cf6887ff90ad73e0..8dee04e4ecc8dccabd6f870eb2b5cae6fa3b124f 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.txt
+++ b/AUTHORS.txt
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Christian Oudard
 Cody Soyland
 Daniel Holth
 Dave Abrahams
+Donald Stufft
 Francesco
 Hugo Lopes Tavares
 Ian Bicking
diff --git a/docs/news.txt b/docs/news.txt
index f3d34a6dc76448ace1f75195db09e4c2aed94998..1c89ce4f131791fb70bb964fd11170af2d00221c 100644
--- a/docs/news.txt
+++ b/docs/news.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ develop (unreleased)
 * Fixed issue #427 - clearer error message on a malformed VCS url. Thanks
   Thomas Fenzl.
 
+* Added support for using any of the built in guaranteed algorithms in ``hashlib``
+  as a checksum hash.
+
 
 1.1 (2012-02-16)
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