diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a405b5ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+## Initial Release
+This project is based on version 1.0 of the Python project [Vortex-Step-Method](https://github.com/ocayon/Vortex-Step-Method)
+
+## Noteworthy Differences
+- implemented in Julia, therefore about 20 times faster
+- an importer for `.obj` was added (see: #10)
\ No newline at end of file