diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 0ed9afa6d..c06fef38c 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -1,5 +1,13 @@
 ## MLKit NEWS
 
+* mael 2020-04-30: Support for Word64, Word63, Int64, and Int63
+  structures in the native backend.
+
+* mael 2020-04-30: Unboxing optimisation for double-precision floats.
+
+* mael 2020-04-30: Preliminary support for source-level region
+  annotations.
+
 * mael 2019-07-03: Fixed bug on macOS wrt setting stacksize.
 
 * mael 2019-07-03: Fixed bug on macOS wrt Time exception during
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cc581d640..44194c720 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ using an [mlkit PPA from Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/~pmunksgaard/+archive/
   Standard ML Basis Library. The support for ML Basis Files makes it
   easy to compile a program with different Standard ML
   compilers. Currently, both [MLton](http://mlton.org) and the MLKit supports the concept
-  of ML Basis Files.
+  of ML Basis Files. The MLKit works well together with [smlpkg](https://github.com/diku-dk/smlpkg), a
+  generic package manager for Standard ML libraries and programs.
 
 * Region-Based Memory Management: Memory allocation directives (both
   allocation and deallocation) are inferred by the compiler, which
diff --git a/test/Makefile b/test/Makefile
index 33ee8cbda..900e6cc61 100644
--- a/test/Makefile
+++ b/test/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 DATE=$(shell /bin/date -u '+%Y-%m-%dT-%H:%M:%S')
 
 .PHONY: test
-test: test_mlkit_no_gc
+test: test_mlkit_no_gc test_mlkit
 
 .PHONY: all
 all: test_kam test_mlkit