diff --git a/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml b/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
index 8312e70787..a15aeab568 100644
--- a/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
+++ b/status/explicit-failures-markup.xml
@@ -1638,7 +1638,7 @@
             <test name="compose_test"/>
             <toolset name="borland-5.6*"/>
             <note author="Jonathan Turkanis">
-                Fails to compile on some installations but not others; may 
+                Fails to compile on some installations but not others; may
                 depend on which compiler updates have been installed
             </note>
         </mark-expected-failures>
@@ -1667,6 +1667,7 @@
             <toolset name="borland-5.5*"/>
             <toolset name="borland-5.6*"/>
             <toolset name="borland-5.8*"/>
+            <toolset name="borland-5.9*"/>
             <toolset name="msvc-7.0"/>
             <toolset name="sunpro-5_3-sunos"/>
             <note refid="17">
@@ -1882,7 +1883,7 @@
             <note author="Ronald Garcia" date="08 Jan 2006">
                 <p>
           These compiler/standard library combinations don't
-          support enable_if. 
+          support enable_if.
                 </p>
             </note>
         </mark-unusable> -->
@@ -1926,6 +1927,10 @@ for more information.
             <toolset name="borland-5.8*"/>
             <note author="Alisdair Meredith" date="26 May 2006"/>
         </mark-unusable>
+        <mark-unusable>
+            <toolset name="borland-5.9*"/>
+            <note author="Alisdair Meredith" date="27 Feb 2007"/>
+        </mark-unusable>
         <mark-unusable>
             <toolset name="gcc-2.95.3-linux"/>
             <toolset name="gcc-2.95.3-stlport-4.5.3-linux"/>
@@ -2917,6 +2922,7 @@ for more information.
         <mark-unusable>
             <toolset name="borland-5.6*"/>
             <toolset name="borland-5.8*"/>
+            <toolset name="borland-5.9*"/>
             <toolset name="gcc-3_3-darwin"/>
             <note author="M.Stevens" refid="17"/>
         </mark-unusable>
@@ -3224,6 +3230,7 @@ for more information.
             <toolset name="hp_cxx-65*"/>
             <toolset name="borland-5.6*"/>
             <toolset name="borland-5.8*"/>
+            <toolset name="borland-5.9*"/>
             <toolset name="msvc-6.5*"/>
             <toolset name="msvc-7.0"/>
             <toolset name="dmc-8_47-stlport-4_5_3"/>
@@ -4685,6 +4692,12 @@ for more information.
           <toolset name="gcc-3.2.*"/>
           <note refid="3"/>
         </mark-expected-failures>
+
+        <mark-expected-failures>
+          <test name="partial_specializations"/>
+          <toolset name="borland-5.9*"/>
+          <note author="Alisdair Meredith" refid="29"/>
+        </mark-expected-failures>
     </library>
 
 
@@ -4814,6 +4827,14 @@ for more information.
             </note>
         </mark-unusable>
 
+       <mark-unusable>
+            <toolset name="borland-5.9*"/>
+            <note author="Alisdair Meredith">
+               This toolset isn't supported because of the used multi_index library, which in turn is
+               not usable with this toolset.
+            </note>
+        </mark-unusable>
+
         <mark-expected-failures>
             <test name="testwave"/>
             <!-- toolset name="cw-9_5-darwin"/ -->