diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index f11fdad877e..2e5de46014d 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -282,6 +282,9 @@ Bug Fixes
   it caused long startup times on lage indexes even when it wasn't used.
   (yonik)
 
+* SOLR-6662: better validation when parsing command-line options that expect a value
+  (Timothy Potter)
+
 Optimizations
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