diff --git a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
index 9cb0bccc23..23f60da20b 100644
--- a/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
+++ b/src/documentation/content/xdocs/status.xml
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@
 
     <changes>
         <release version="3.8-beta2" date="2011-??-??">
+           <action dev="poi-developers" type="add">Added NPOIFS constructors to most POIDocument classes and their extractors, and more widely deprecated the Document(DirectoryNode, POIFSFileSystem) constructor in favour of the more general Document(DirectoryNode) one</action>
+           <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">Fixed NPOIFS handling of new and empty Document Nodes</action>
+           <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">Fixed NPOIFS access to Document Nodes not in the top level directory</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">50841 - Improved SpreadSheet DataFormatter to handle scientific notation, invalid dates and format spacers</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">49381 - Correct createFreezePane in XSSF, so that the left row/column matches the documentation + HSSF</action>
            <action dev="poi-developers" type="fix">49253 - When setting repeating rows and columns for XSSF, don't break the print settings if they were already there</action>
diff --git a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hpbf/extractor/PublisherTextExtractor.java b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hpbf/extractor/PublisherTextExtractor.java
index e0db9df379..be238b6f30 100644
--- a/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hpbf/extractor/PublisherTextExtractor.java
+++ b/src/scratchpad/src/org/apache/poi/hpbf/extractor/PublisherTextExtractor.java
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ import org.apache.poi.hpbf.model.qcbits.QCBit;
 import org.apache.poi.hpbf.model.qcbits.QCTextBit;
 import org.apache.poi.hpbf.model.qcbits.QCPLCBit.Type12;
 import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.DirectoryNode;
+import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.NPOIFSFileSystem;
 import org.apache.poi.poifs.filesystem.POIFSFileSystem;
 
 /**
@@ -46,6 +47,9 @@ public final class PublisherTextExtractor extends POIOLE2TextExtractor {
    public PublisherTextExtractor(POIFSFileSystem fs) throws IOException {
       this(new HPBFDocument(fs));
    }
+   public PublisherTextExtractor(NPOIFSFileSystem fs) throws IOException {
+      this(new HPBFDocument(fs));
+   }
    public PublisherTextExtractor(InputStream is) throws IOException {
       this(new POIFSFileSystem(is));
    }