diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 2b69f159a61..529b07de390 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -145,6 +145,9 @@ Improvements
 * GITHUB#687: speed up IndexSortSortedNumericDocValuesRangeQuery#BoundedDocIdSetIterator
   construction using bkd binary search. (Jianping Weng)
 
+* GITHUB#11985: ExitableTerms to override Terms#getMin and Terms#getMax in order to avoid
+  iterating through the terms when the wrapped implementation caches such values. (Luca Cavanna)
+
 Bug Fixes
 ---------------------
 * GITHUB#11726: Indexing term vectors on large documents could fail due to