diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 3fba69d625a..2e338275ef1 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -266,8 +266,6 @@ Other Changes
 * SOLR-5730: Make Lucene's SortingMergePolicy and EarlyTerminatingSortingCollector configurable in Solr.
   (Christine Poerschke, hossmann, Tomás Fernández Löbbe, Shai Erera)
 
-Other Changes
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 * SOLR-8677: Prevent shards containing invalid characters from being created.  Checks added server-side
   and in SolrJ.  (Shai Erera, Jason Gerlowski, Anshum Gupta)