diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index a3a4fff5ff9..6ed7675628d 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@ Bug Fixes
   minPackedValue and maxPackedValue to skip leaves that do not have points
   rather than raising an IllegalStateException. (Adrien Grand)
 
+* LUCENE-7279: JapaneseTokenizer throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
+  on some valid inputs (Mike McCandless)
+
 Documentation
 
 * LUCENE-7223: Improve XXXPoint javadocs to make it clear that you