diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index c33a0bf542f..3390372856f 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -376,6 +376,35 @@ Other
 * LUCENE-10024: Catch NoSuchFileException when opening index directory with Luke.
   (Michael Wechner, Tomoko Uchida)
 
+======================= Lucene 8.11.0 =======================
+
+API Changes
+---------------------
+(No changes)
+
+New Features
+---------------------
+(No changes)
+
+Improvements
+---------------------
+
+* LUCENE-9662: Make CheckIndex concurrent by parallelizing index check across segments.
+  (Zach Chen, Mike McCandless, Dawid Weiss, Robert Muir)
+
+Optimizations
+---------------------
+(No changes)
+
+Bug Fixes
+---------------------
+(No changes)
+
+Other
+---------------------
+
+* LUCENE-10098: Add docs/links to GermanAnalyzer describing how to decompound nouns. (Robert Muir)
+
 ======================= Lucene 8.10.0 =======================
 
 API Changes
diff --git a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanAnalyzer.java b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanAnalyzer.java
index c5e55d58c0b..9e2829ac0a2 100644
--- a/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanAnalyzer.java
+++ b/lucene/analysis/common/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/de/GermanAnalyzer.java
@@ -45,7 +45,14 @@ import org.apache.lucene.util.IOUtils;
  * <p><b>NOTE</b>: This class uses the same {@link org.apache.lucene.util.Version} dependent
  * settings as {@link StandardAnalyzer}.
  *
+ * <p><b>NOTE</b>: This class does not decompound nouns, additional data files are needed,
+ * incompatible with the Apache 2.0 License. You can find these data files and example code for
+ * decompounding <a
+ * href="https://github.com/uschindler/german-decompounder#lucene-api-example">here</a>.
+ *
  * @since 3.1
+ * @see <a
+ *     href="https://github.com/uschindler/german-decompounder">https://github.com/uschindler/german-decompounder</a>
  */
 public final class GermanAnalyzer extends StopwordAnalyzerBase {