diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 487ee5f031b..444b8aeb8a4 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -195,6 +195,9 @@ Optimizations
 * LUCENE-8149: NRTCachingDirectory does not need to preemptively delete segment files and generate exceptions
   (Erick Erickson)
 
+* SOLR-11879: avoid EOFException for empty input streams (noble)
+
+
 Other Changes
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