diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index eed554f2..7b1eb1d4 100644
--- a/debian/NEWS
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+aptly (1.3.0+ds1-2.2) unstable; urgency=medium
+
+  This version tries to fix the database backwards compatibility,
+  so you don't need to rebuild the database if you upgrade from
+  aptly <= 1.3.0-6.
+
+  However some fields are missing, like created time of a snapshot.
+
+ -- Shengjing Zhu <zhsj@debian.org>  Sat, 13 Apr 2019 23:26:39 +0800
+
 aptly (1.3.0+ds1-2) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * The database created by aptly <= 1.3.0-6 is not compatible