diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 872b17cc5..268a7444b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,16 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel Stenberg (12 Dec 2009)
+- IMAP, POP3 and SMTP support and their TLS versions (including IMAPS, POP3S
+  and SMTPS) are now supported. The current state may not yet be solid, but
+  the foundation is in place and the test suite has some initial support for
+  these protocols. Work will now persue to make them nice libcurl citizens
+  until release.
+
+  The work with supporting these new protocols was sponsored by
+  networking4all.com - thanks!
+
 Daniel Stenberg (10 Dec 2009)
 - Siegfried Gyuricsko found out that the curl manual said --retry would retry
   on FTP errors in the transient 5xx range. Transient FTP errors are in the
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 8d4045905..dd6eb8fd2 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Curl and libcurl 7.20.0
 
  Public curl releases:         114
- Command line options:         132
- curl_easy_setopt() options:   163
+ Command line options:         134
+ curl_easy_setopt() options:   165
  Public functions in libcurl:  58
  Known libcurl bindings:       39
  Contributors:                 761
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ This release includes the following changes:
  o curl-config can now show the arguments used when building curl
  o non-blocking TFTP
  o send Expect: 100-continue for POSTs with unknown sizes
+ o added support for IMAP, POP3 and SMTP transfers
+ o added --mail-from and --mail-rcpt for SMTP
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes: