diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index a8afebe02..55f57a80c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ strongswan-4.5.1
   for additional userland implementations of symmetric cipher, hash, hmac and
   xcbc algorithms.
 
+- The IKEv2 daemon supports the INITIAL_CONTACT notify as initiator and
+  responder. The notify is sent when initiating configurations with a unique
+  policy, set in ipsec.conf via the global 'uniqueids' option.
+
 strongswan-4.5.0
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