diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8375136..d99f54c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
         Put likelihood computation in GObservation class
         Add broken power law spectral model
         Add Gaussian spectral model
+        Update parameter files if necessary
         Rename the following classes:
         - GWcs => GSkyProjection
         - GWcslib => GWcs
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index b61d936..5eaa763 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -375,6 +375,11 @@ installed. This allows providing absolute paths for unit testing, a need
 for the special valgrind rule in case that Sonar is used for quality
 checking.
 
+The configuration script now updates any parameter files in the users
+pfiles directory that is older than the system parameter files. This
+corrects for problems that arose when parameter files in the pfiles
+directory did not include all parameters necessary for the latest version.
+
 
 4. Application module
 ---------------------