diff --git a/lucene/CHANGES.txt b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
index 2ce7d1c354c..3084a403886 100644
--- a/lucene/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/lucene/CHANGES.txt
@@ -190,6 +190,8 @@ Improvements
 * GITHUB#12705, GITHUB#12705: Improve handling of NullPointerException and IllegalStateException
   in MMapDirectory's IndexInputs.  (Uwe Schindler, Michael Sokolov)
 
+* GITHUB#12689: TaskExecutor to cancel all tasks on exception to avoid needless computation. (Luca Cavanna)
+
 Optimizations
 ---------------------
 * GITHUB#12183: Make TermStates#build concurrent. (Shubham Chaudhary)