diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 4f8d2506713..34d0c635bd2 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ Bug Fixes
 * LUCENE-4998: Fixed a few places to pass IOContext.READONCE instead
   of IOContext.READ (Shikhar Bhushan via Mike McCandless)
 
+API Changes:
+
+* LUCENE-5222: Add SortField.needsScores(). Previously it was not possible
+  for a custom Sort that makes use of the relevance score to work correctly
+  with IndexSearcher when an ExecutorService is specified.
+  (Ryan Ernst, Mike McCandless, Robert Muir)
+
 Changes in backwards compatibility policy
 
 * LUCENE-5204: Directory doesn't have default implementations for