diff --git a/docs/news.html.in b/docs/news.html.in
index 229bc2410c..26d3548436 100644
--- a/docs/news.html.in
+++ b/docs/news.html.in
@@ -5,25 +5,30 @@
     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
   </head>
   <body>
-    <h1>Releases (2016)</h1>
-    <p>Here is the list of official releases made during the year 2016.
-    A similar list for <a href="news-2015.html">2015</a> is also available.
-    </p>
-    <p>It is also possible to just use
-    the <a href="downloads.html">GIT version or snapshot</a>,
-    contact the mailing list and check
-    the <a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=log">GIT log</a>
-    to gauge progress.
+    <h1>Releases</h1>
+    <p>This is the list of official releases for libvirt, along with an
+    overview of the changes introduced by each of them.</p>
+    <p>For a more fine-grained view, use the
+    <a href="http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=log">git log</a>.
     </p>
 
-   <h3>v2.5.0: <i>unreleased</i></h3>
-   <ul>
-     <li>Switch to an improved NEWS file format<br/>
-     List user-visible changes instead of single commits for a better
-     high-level overview of differences between libvirt releases
-     </li>
-     <li>Various bug fixes and improvements</li>
-   </ul>
+    <h3>v2.5.0 (<i>unreleased</i>)</h3>
+    <ul>
+      <li><strong>Improvements</strong>
+        <ul>
+          <li>NEWS: Switch to an improved format<br/>
+          List user-visible changes instead of single commits for a better
+          high-level overview of differences between libvirt releases
+          </li>
+        </ul>
+      </li>
+    </ul>
+
+    <p>Releases earlier than v2.5.0 detailed their changes using a different
+    format and as such are excluded from the list above.
+    You can read about those older release, starting from those made in
+    <a href="news-2016.html">2016</a>.
+    </p>
 
   </body>
 </html>
diff --git a/docs/news.xsl b/docs/news.xsl
index 916bc4b9cc..33506a977b 100644
--- a/docs/news.xsl
+++ b/docs/news.xsl
@@ -5,13 +5,8 @@
   <xsl:output method="text" encoding="UTF-8"/>
 
   <xsl:template match="/">
-    <xsl:text>
-        NEWS file for libvirt
-
-  Note that this file contains only the most recent releases; for the full
-  list, please visit:
-       http://libvirt.org/news.html
-
+    <xsl:text>libvirt releases
+================
 </xsl:text>
     <xsl:apply-templates select="html:html/html:body/*"/>
   </xsl:template>
@@ -22,30 +17,33 @@
   <xsl:template match="html:h3">
     <xsl:text>
 </xsl:text>
+    <xsl:text># </xsl:text>
     <xsl:apply-templates/>
-    <xsl:text>:
+    <xsl:text>
+
 </xsl:text>
   </xsl:template>
 
   <xsl:template match="html:ul">
-      <xsl:apply-templates select="html:li"/>
-    <xsl:text>
-</xsl:text>
+    <xsl:apply-templates select="html:li"/>
   </xsl:template>
 
   <xsl:template match="html:li">
-    <xsl:text>   - </xsl:text>
-    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
+    <xsl:text>   * </xsl:text>
+    <xsl:apply-templates select="html:strong|*/html:li"/>
+  </xsl:template>
+
+  <xsl:template match="html:li/*/html:li">
+    <xsl:text>      - </xsl:text>
+    <xsl:apply-templates/>
     <xsl:text>
 </xsl:text>
   </xsl:template>
 
-  <xsl:template match="html:a">
-    <xsl:value-of select="."/>
-    <xsl:text> at
-</xsl:text>
-    <xsl:value-of select="@href"/>
+  <xsl:template match="html:strong">
+    <xsl:apply-templates/>
     <xsl:text>
+
 </xsl:text>
   </xsl:template>
 
