News and contributors for 4.0.1

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diff --git a/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS b/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS
index 3aeeba547..e5d676943 100644
--- a/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS
+++ b/Etc/CONTRIBUTORS
@@ -15,9 +15,51 @@ to be currently accurate.  If you feel that you or someone else have
 been unfairly omitted from this list please mail the current maintainer
 at <coordinator@zsh.org>.
 
-Version 3.1.7
+Version 4.0.1
 -------------
 
+Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>: Completion functions, general
+configuration and module issues.
+
+Andrej Borsenkow <Andrej.Borsenkow@mow.siemens.ru>: Cygwin support,
+configuration, completion functions.
+
+Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>: configuration support.
+
+Wayne Davison <wayned@users.sourceforege.net>: History code.
+
+Alexandre Duret-Lutz: completion functions and substitution code.
+
+Oliver Kiddle <opk@zsh.org>: Modules and completion functions, AIX support.
+
+Andrew Main <zefram@zsh.org>: Parameters and arithmetic, configuration.
+
+Felix Rosencrantz <f_rosencrantz@yahoo.com>: Test code and shell functions.
+
+Bart Schaefer <schaefer@zsh.org>: bits of everything in all parts of code;
+general sanity control.
+
+Adam Spiers <adam@spiers.net>: Completion and other functions, completion
+caching.
+
+Peter Stephenson <pws@zsh.org>: configuration and installation, parameters,
+completion functions and configuration.
+
+Tanaka Akira <akr@zsh.org>: Completion and test functions.
+
+Geoff Wing <gcw@zsh.org>: FTP and mailing list archive
+
+Sven Wischnowsky <wischnow@zsh.org>: Most of the completion code, zpty,
+signal queuing, parameters, builtins, builtouts, built-here-and-theres;
+mend garden shed, rewire electricity, reinstall shutters, fix TV aerial in
+howling gale...
+
+Other patches from E. Jay Birkenbilt,, Jan Fedak, Ulrik Haugen, Paul
+Johnson, Fr. Br. George (George V Kouryachy).
+
+Versions 3.1.7 to 3.1.9
+-----------------------
+
 * Clint Adams <schizo@debian.org>: configuration, various fixes esp. in
   completion
 
diff --git a/Etc/NEWS b/Etc/NEWS
index 3ea570d40..1e6a3308b 100644
--- a/Etc/NEWS
+++ b/Etc/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,44 @@
 CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS VERSIONS OF ZSH
 -------------------------------------
 				     
+New features in zsh version 4.0.1
+---------------------------------
+
+Compared with 3.1.9, there are mostly incremental improvements to
+  - the new completion system --- more functions, completers, styles...
+  - the line editor
+  - handling of signals and traps
+  - the configuration system, particularly for modules
+  - Cygwin support (now essentially complete)
+  - arithmetic evaluation
+  - the zpty (pseudoterminal handling) module
+  - the test suite
+plus various bug fixes and compatibility improvements.
+
+The alias modules (zle.so as an alias for zsh/zle.so, etc.) have been
+removed; use `zmodload -A' to load modules under other names.  This is
+irrelevant if you are upgrading from 3.0.
+
+Compared with the 3.0 series of releases (the last stable set), the most
+significant of a large number of improvements in the shell are:
+  - Dynamically loadable modules with hierarchical naming system
+  - Shell functions as editor functions, with much additional builtin support
+  - Incredibly rich new completion system; just needs a single
+    initialization command to provide completion for all sorts of commands
+    and contexts
+  - Associative arrays
+  - Lots of new features in parameter substitution and globbing; more
+    logical handling of nested parameter substitutions
+  - Rewritten pattern-matching (globbing) code supports approximate
+    and case-insensitive matching and backreferences
+  - Various custom modules for pty's, FTP, special parameters, etc.
+  - Rewrites of many internal parts of the code: execution code to
+    provide compilation to internal representation, pattern matching
+  - Floating point arithmetic and mathematical functions module
+  - A test suite
+  - Various new options for compatibility with this, that and the other
+See the 3.1.x changes below for more detail.
+
 New features in zsh version 3.1.8 and 3.1.9
 -------------------------------------------
 These are primarily bug-fix versions.  There are only a few user-visible