diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 0bdcdfca99d..61fadfb5a0a 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -852,6 +852,7 @@ with blank space to eshell history.
 
 ** EUDC
 
+---
 *** Backward compatibility support for BBDB versions less than 3
 (i.e., BBDB 2.x) is deprecated and will likely be removed in the next
 major release of Emacs.  Users of BBDB 2.x should plan to upgrade to