diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index cb2afcc8b4..566c8877d1 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -22,7 +22,10 @@ v1.4
   when using these now obsolete options when the server is started, no error is produced
   for downwards-compatibility.
 
-* changed journal file creation behavior
+* changed User-Agent value sent by arangoimp, arangosh, and arangod from "VOC-Agent" to 
+  "ArangoDB"
+
+* changed journal file creation behavior as follows:
 
   Previously, a journal file for a collection was always created when a collection was
   created. When a journal filled up and became full, the current journal was made a
@@ -70,6 +73,9 @@ v1.4
   making the journal a datafile. Thus `rotate()` may cause disk space savings, even if
   the datafiles does not qualify for compaction after rotation.
 
+  Note: the journal is asynchronously, so that the actual rotation may be executed
+  after `rotate()` returns to the caller.
+
 * changed compaction to merge small datafiles together (up to 3 datafiles are merged in 
   a compaction run)