diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt b/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
index 4bae427f5..275240481 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ Changelog:
 * [HTTPCLIENT-1715] NTLMEngineImpl.Type1Message not thread safe but declared as a constant.
   Contributed by Olivier Lafontaine <olafontaine at gmail.com>, Gary Gregory <ggregory at apache.org>
 
+* [HTTPCLIENT-1717] Make fluent API .Content.Content(byte[], ContentType) public.
+  Contributed by Cash Costello <cash.costello at gmail.com>
 
 
 Release 5.0-ALPHA1
diff --git a/httpclient5-fluent/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/fluent/Content.java b/httpclient5-fluent/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/fluent/Content.java
index 8e5df816d..fbc6d1004 100644
--- a/httpclient5-fluent/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/fluent/Content.java
+++ b/httpclient5-fluent/src/main/java/org/apache/hc/client5/http/fluent/Content.java
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ public class Content {
     private final byte[] raw;
     private final ContentType type;
 
-    Content(final byte[] raw, final ContentType type) {
+    public Content(final byte[] raw, final ContentType type) {
         super();
         this.raw = raw;
         this.type = type;