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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 98d79f00b6f..575b62d9709 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2440,9 +2440,15 @@ call to `message', the echo area will not be resized to display that
 message; it will be truncated instead, as it was done in 20.x.
 Default value is nil.
 
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 ** The user option `line-number-display-limit' can now be set to nil,
 meaning no limit.
 
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+** The new user option `line-number-display-limit-width' controls
+the maximum width of lines in a buffer for which Emacs displays line
+numbers in the mode line.  The default is 200.
+
 ** `select-safe-coding-system' now also checks the most preferred
 coding-system if buffer-file-coding-system is `undecided' and
 DEFAULT-CODING-SYSTEM is not specified,