diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index a4678fa0177..8a2fc992e27 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -305,7 +305,8 @@ Trunk (unreleased changes)
                at once
    HBASE-506   When an exception has to escape ServerCallable due to exhausted
                retries, show all the exceptions that lead to this situation
-   HBASE-747   Add a simple way to do batch updates of many rows
+   HBASE-747   Add a simple way to do batch updates of many rows (Jean-Daniel
+               Cryans via JimK)
    
   OPTIMIZATIONS
    HBASE-430   Performance: Scanners and getRow return maps with duplicate data