diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 0c92bd6d36f..cd4ba77d3c4 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -260,6 +260,9 @@ Optimizations
 
 * GITHUB#13232 : Introduce singleton for PackedInts.NullReader of size 256 (Armin Braun)
 
+* GITHUB#11722: Binary search the BlockTree terms dictionary entries when all suffixes have the same length
+  in a leaf block, speeding up cases like primary key lookup on an id field when all ids are the same length. (zhouhui)
+
 Bug Fixes
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