diff --git a/hledger/CHANGES b/hledger/CHANGES
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@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ User-visible changes in the hledger command line tool (and hledger-lib).
 
 # 1.12 (2018/12/02)
 
+* install script: ensure a new-enough version of stack; more informative output
+
 * build with GHC 8.6/base-4.12 (Peter Simons)
 
 * add required upper bound for statistics (Samuel May)