diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d9a2f3cf..3ef11201 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,20 @@
 XZ Utils User-Visible Changes
 =============================
 
+5.0.1 (2011-01-29)
+
+    * xz --force now (de)compresses files that have setuid, setgid,
+      or sticky bit set and files that have multiple hard links.
+      The man page had it documented this way already, but the code
+      had a bug.
+
+    * gzip and bzip2 support in xzdiff was fixed.
+
+    * Portability fixes
+
+    * Minor fix to Czech translation
+
+
 5.0.0 (2010-10-23)
 
     Only the most important changes compared to 4.999.9beta are listed
diff --git a/src/xz/file_io.c b/src/xz/file_io.c
index 6e24c58a..09edcca6 100644
--- a/src/xz/file_io.c
+++ b/src/xz/file_io.c
@@ -457,15 +457,14 @@ io_open_src_real(file_pair *pair)
 		goto error;
 	}
 
-	if (reg_files_only) {
-		if (!S_ISREG(pair->src_st.st_mode)) {
-			message_warning(_("%s: Not a regular file, "
-					"skipping"), pair->src_name);
-			goto error;
-		}
+	if (reg_files_only && !S_ISREG(pair->src_st.st_mode)) {
+		message_warning(_("%s: Not a regular file, skipping"),
+				pair->src_name);
+		goto error;
+	}
 
-		// These are meaningless on Windows.
 #ifndef TUKLIB_DOSLIKE
+	if (reg_files_only && !opt_force) {
 		if (pair->src_st.st_mode & (S_ISUID | S_ISGID)) {
 			// gzip rejects setuid and setgid files even
 			// when --force was used. bzip2 doesn't check
@@ -495,8 +494,8 @@ io_open_src_real(file_pair *pair)
 					"skipping"), pair->src_name);
 			goto error;
 		}
-#endif
 	}
+#endif
 
 	return false;