diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS
index 7b0b76e6024384f44e3bd655a77a02d8205cd6ff..c6218810a6847709e007ac0f6022eb1d5e60fb77 100644
--- a/debian/NEWS
+++ b/debian/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,25 @@
+backupninja (0.9.8-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * duplicity 0.6.01 and later defaults to using an archive (cache)
+    directory, which was previously opt-in. Starting with backupninja
+    0.9.8, the backupninja duplicity handler puts this cache into
+    /var/cache/backupninja/duplicity unless specified by the user with
+    the "options" setting the *.dup job.
+    When backups have been performed with backupninja older than 0.9.8 in
+    conjunction with duplicity 0.6.01 or later, e.g. when using Sid or
+    Squeeze at certain times of the Squeeze release cycle, cache files
+    were probably saved into /root/.cache/duplicity; one may want to
+    delete these files, or rather save bandwidth and just move the cache
+    directory to the new location:
+
+      mkdir -p /var/cache/backupninja
+      mv /root/.cache/duplicity /var/cache/backupninja/
+
+    It is probably desirable to exclude this cache directory from
+    duplicity backup sets to avoid some kind of reentrant backup problem.
+
+ -- Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>  Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:58:49 +0200
+
 backupninja (0.9.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * duplicity: Old (pre-0.9.4) example.dup file used to give false
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index e6aa36434686df1a38c350913754244e1222ed55..fb2cecad1b6b26318ef7a7b149b6a54e9cecc598 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,29 @@
+backupninja (0.9.8-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Bump Standards version: no changes
+  * New upstream release
+    . only run mdadm if RAID devices actually exist (Closes: #572450)
+    . duplicity handler now defaults to use --full-if-older-than
+      (Closes: #572523, #535996)
+    . duplicy handler now gets rid of unnecessary old cache files
+      (Closes: #572721)
+    . fix duplicity version comparison (Closes: #578987)
+    . duplicity now uses /var/cache/backupninja/duplicity as a cache
+      directory (Closes: #580016)
+    . allow to securely transmit the FTP password from backupninja to
+      duplicity (closes an unreported security issue)
+    . mysql handler does not lock tables in the information_schema
+      database anymore (Closes: #587011)
+    . mysql dbusername/dbpassword options are now actually usable
+    . include the rsync handler (Closes: #515108)
+    . prevents multiple instances of the same rsync job to run in
+      parallel
+    . avoid passing the remote user twice to rsync-over-ssh
+    . documentation improvements (Closes: #583778)
+    . support systems that lack gzip's --rsyncable option
+
+ -- Micah Anderson <micah@riseup.net>  Sun, 12 Sep 2010 19:58:49 +0200
+
 backupninja (0.9.7-5) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * Upload experimental package to unstable