diff --git a/bin/release b/bin/release
index 751a514246..d582272ea3 100755
--- a/bin/release
+++ b/bin/release
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
 #
 #  --nocheck	Ignore errors in MANIFEST file.
 #          
+#  --private	Make a private release with today's date in version information.
+#          
 # The other command-line options are the names of the programs to use
 # for compressing the resulting tar archive (if none are given then
 # `tar md5' is assumed):
diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
index 30e26df76f..08ea7f5084 100644
--- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
+++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt
@@ -500,6 +500,8 @@ New Features
 
     Tools:
     ------
+        - Added new tool, h5mkgrp. QAK - 2007/02/14
+        - Added new tool, h5copy. PVN - 2006/??/??
 	- Removed obsolete pdb2hdf5 tool from tools/misc  -JML 2005/10/24
 	- Added build_h5perf_alone.sh that builds h5perf by standalone mode.
 	  AKC - 2005/09/18.