diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index ec32ee6cdc..d04814e63d 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 3.0
+ * Remove YamlFileNetworkTopologySnitch (CASSANDRA-7917)
  * Support Java source code for user-defined functions (CASSANDRA-7562)
  * Require arg types to disambiguate UDF drops (CASSANDRA-7812)
  * Do anticompaction in groups (CASSANDRA-6851)
diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index 94d566ba88..0f47a6918f 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ New features
 
 Upgrading
 ---------
+   - YamlFileNetworkTopologySnitch has been removed; switch to
+     GossipingPropertyFileSnitch instead.
    - CQL2 has been removed entirely in this release (previously deprecated
      in 2.0.0). Please switch to CQL3 if you haven't already done so.