diff --git a/website/filters/filters.html b/website/filters/filters.html
index 835fe0ff..d07fec6f 100644
--- a/website/filters/filters.html
+++ b/website/filters/filters.html
@@ -74,7 +74,15 @@
         <p>If you are running an older Recoll version, you really
           should upgrade.</p>
       </blockquote>
-      
+
+      <h2>TAR archives</h2>
+
+      <p>New <a href="rcltar">rcltar</a> filter for tar archives. The
+        indexing of tar archives is disabled by default in the sample
+        configuration (stored here). You'll need to add
+        an <tt>application/x-tar = execm rcltar</tt> line in the
+        [index] section of your $HOME/mimeconf to enable it.</p>
+
       <h2>XML files</h2>
 
       <p>By default, the current recoll version does not index xml
diff --git a/website/index.html.en b/website/index.html.en
index db2cae06..de984a60 100644
--- a/website/index.html.en
+++ b/website/index.html.en
@@ -70,6 +70,10 @@
       <h2>News</h2>
       <div class="news">
       <ul>
+        <li>2012-05-25: a
+          new <a href="filters/filters.html">filter</a> for indexing
+          tar archives.</li>
+
         <li>2012-05-23: Release 1.17.3 mostly fixes an indexing crash that
           sometimes occurred  while processing email. See the 
           <a href="release-1.17.html">Release notes</a>.