backup-directory-alist, make-backup-file-name-function.

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
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@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ images and toolkit scrollbars.  Use the --help option to list them.
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 * Changes in Emacs 21.1
 
+** New user options `backup-directory-alist' and
+`make-backup-file-name-function' are provided to control the placement
+of backups, typically in a single directory or in an invisible
+sub-directory.
+
 ** New commands iso-iso2sgml and iso-sgml2iso convert between Latin-1
 characters and the corresponding SGML (HTML) entities.