diff --git a/AUTHORS.txt b/AUTHORS.txt
index b567d7ee1..636fcd254 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.txt
+++ b/AUTHORS.txt
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ Paul van der Linden
 Peter Waller
 Phil Whelan
 Piet Delport
+Przemek Wrzos
 Qiangning Hong
 Rafael Caricio
 Rene Dudfield
diff --git a/docs/news.txt b/docs/news.txt
index d512783b5..1f92adecb 100644
--- a/docs/news.txt
+++ b/docs/news.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,10 @@ develop (unreleased)
 * Added "pip show" command to get information about an installed
   package. Fixes #131. Thanks Kelsey Hightower and Rafael Caricio.
 
+* Added `--root` option for "pip install" to specify root directory. Behaves
+  like the same option in distutils but also plays nice with pip's egg-info.
+  (Issue #253)
+
 1.2.1 (2012-09-06)
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