diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e7caa7f53e4..725f2c464c9 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -137,6 +137,11 @@
 			<name>Mohammad Jafari</name>
 			<organization>Edmond Scientific Company</organization>
 		</developer>
+		<developer>
+			<id>joel-costigliola</id>
+			<name>Joel Costigliola</name>
+			<organization>JCOS-Technologies</organization>
+		</developer>
 	</developers>
 
 	<licenses>
diff --git a/src/changes/changes.xml b/src/changes/changes.xml
index 64f2ee0efc9..a256817e372 100644
--- a/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -207,6 +207,11 @@
 				configures the parser to preserve versions in resource reference links when
 				encoding. By default, these are removed.
 			</action>
+			<action type="add" due-to="joel-costigliola" issue="171">
+				Add an exception for RESTful clients/servers to represent the
+				HTTP 403 Forbidden status code. Thanks to Joel Costigliola for
+				the patch!
+			</action>
 		</release>
 		<release version="0.9" date="2015-Mar-14">
 			<action type="add">