diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index bea44ceb5c..84871aa24f 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ dev
    (CASSANDRA-685)
  * make framed transport the default so malformed requests can't OOM the 
    server (CASSANDRA-475)
+ * significantly faster reads from row cache (CASSANDRA-1267)
 
 
 0.6.4
diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index 24ff554a1a..2b96432258 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ Features
     - optional round-robin scheduling between keyspaces for multitenant
       clusters
     - dynamic endpoint snitch mitigates the impact of impaired nodes
+    - significantly faster reads from row cache
 
 Configuraton
 ------------