diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
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@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ API Changes
 * LUCENE-2240: SimpleAnalyzer and WhitespaceAnalyzer now have
   Version ctors.  (Simon Willnauer via Uwe Schindler)
 
-* LUCENE-2259: Add IndexWriter.removeUnusedFiles, to attempt removing
+* LUCENE-2259: Add IndexWriter.deleteUnusedFiles, to attempt removing
   unused files.  This is only useful on Windows, which prevents
   deletion of open files. IndexWriter will eventually remove these
   files itself; this method just lets you do so when you know the