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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 33c1b136ebc..9f0fb8d6941 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1720,6 +1720,12 @@ environment.  For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
 systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
 counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.
+++
+** The new function `string-numeric-lessp' compares strings by
+interpreting consecutive runs of numerical characters as numbers, and
+compares their numerical values.  According to this predicate,
+"foo2.png" is smaller than "foo12.png".
 ---
 *** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
 The effect is that, on systems that use ls-lisp for Dired, the default

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 33c1b136ebc..9f0fb8d6941 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -1720,6 +1720,12 @@ environment. For the time being this is implemented for modern POSIX
1720	systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their	1720	systems and for MS-Windows, for other systems they fall back to their
1721	counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.	1721	counterparts `string-lessp' and `string-equal'.
1722		1722
		1723	+++
		1724	** The new function `string-numeric-lessp' compares strings by
		1725	interpreting consecutive runs of numerical characters as numbers, and
		1726	compares their numerical values. According to this predicate,
		1727	"foo2.png" is smaller than "foo12.png".
		1728
1723	---	1729	---
1724	*** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.	1730	*** The ls-lisp package uses `string-collate-lessp' to sort file names.
1725	The effect is that, on systems that use ls-lisp for Dired, the default	1731	The effect is that, on systems that use ls-lisp for Dired, the default