diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index e060e2e18..41c273654 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ The Windows packages are already available for download at:
 
 The Mac and GNU/Linux packages (for Debian and Ubuntu LTS) should follow soon.
 
-This release is compatible with MATLAB versions 7.3 (R2006b) to 9.3 (R2017b)
+This release is compatible with MATLAB versions 7.5 (R2007b) to 9.3 (R2017b)
 and with GNU Octave versions 4.2.
 
 Here is a list of the problems identified in version 4.5.3 and that have been
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ The Windows packages are already available for download at:
 
 The Mac and GNU/Linux packages (for Debian and Ubuntu LTS) should follow soon.
 
-This release is compatible with MATLAB versions 7.3 (R2006b) to 9.3 (R2017b)
+This release is compatible with MATLAB versions 7.5 (R2007b) to 9.3 (R2017b)
 and with GNU Octave versions 4.2.
 
 Here is a list of the problems identified in version 4.5.2 and that have been
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ The Windows packages are already available for download at:
 
 The Mac and GNU/Linux packages (for Debian and Ubuntu LTS) should follow soon.
 
-This release is compatible with MATLAB versions 7.3 (R2006b) to 9.3 (R2017b)
+This release is compatible with MATLAB versions 7.5 (R2007b) to 9.3 (R2017b)
 and with GNU Octave versions 4.2.
 
 Here is a list of the problems identified in version 4.5.1 and that have been
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ The Windows packages are already available for download at:
 
 The Mac and GNU/Linux packages (for Debian and Ubuntu LTS) should follow soon.
 
-This release is compatible with MATLAB versions 7.3 (R2006b) to 9.2 (R2017a)
+This release is compatible with MATLAB versions 7.5 (R2007b) to 9.2 (R2017a)
 and with GNU Octave versions 4.2.
 
 Here is a list of the problems identified in version 4.5.0 and that have been
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ The Mac and Debian/Ubuntu packages should follow soon.
 
 All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
 
-This release is compatible with MATLAB versions ranging from 7.3 (R2006b) to
+This release is compatible with MATLAB versions ranging from 7.5 (R2007b) to
 9.2 (R2017a) and with GNU Octave version 4.2.
 
 Here is the list of major user-visible changes: