* NEWS: Describe the changes in behavior.
---
 NEWS | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4dad878b0..ee4d04fee 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -36,6 +36,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- 
outline -*-
   'ls' -w,--width no longer includes '\n' in the width of a line.
   I.e., the width or $COLUMNS is interpreted to be an _inclusive_ maximum.
 
+  'stat' now uses shell quoting when required, to more robustly escape
+  file names.  Previously it only quoted file names with the %N format.
+  Like %N, this default quoting honors the QUOTING_STYLE env variable.
+  Also %Qn is a newly supported format combination to quote file names,
+  leaving the existing %n format for when quoting is not desired.
+
 ** Improvements
 
   'sort' will now better use available memory and parallel operation
-- 
2.54.0


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