diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 5b9c5a30..c465c0ee 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Features:
 * remove size limit on external command argument length
 * performance improvements when having lots of comments
-* Respawn dead core worker
+* respawn dead core worker
 
 Changed:
 * write objects.precache into a tmp file first