diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 76e3d054a4e..bdaa269b056 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ New Features
     also lets the DocumentBuilder convert a SolrInputDocument to a lucene
     Document.  (ryan)
 
+ 8. SOLR-133: Added StaxUpdateRequestHandler that uses StAX for XML parsing.
+    This implementation has much better error checking and lets you configure
+    a custom UpdateRequestProcessor that can selectively process update 
+    requests depending on the request attributes.  This class will likely 
+    replace XmlUpdateRequestHandler.  (Thorsten Scherler, ryan)
+
 Changes in runtime behavior
 
 Optimizations