diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 750241f56..c4a66c950 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@
 
 
 
+Daniel (6 January 2006)
+- Alexander Lazic made the buildconf run the buildconf in the ares dir if that
+  is present instead of trying to mimic that script in curl's buildconf
+  script.
+
 Daniel (3 January 2006)
 - Andres Garcia made the TFTP test server build with mingw.
 
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index d694bef24..e0c56f8dd 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -29,6 +29,6 @@ This release would not have looked like this without help, code, reports and
 advice from friends like these:
 
  Dov Murik, Jean Jacques Drouin, Andres Garcia, Yang Tse, Gisle Vanem, Dan
- Fandrich
+ Fandrich, Alexander Lazic
  
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)
diff --git a/ares/CHANGES b/ares/CHANGES
index f4d4676d5..0c880fade 100644
--- a/ares/CHANGES
+++ b/ares/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
   Changelog for the c-ares project
 
+* January 6, 2006
+
+- Alexander Lazic pointed out that the buildconf should use the ACLOCAL_FLAGS
+  variable for easier controlling what it does and how it runs.
+
 * January 5, 2006
 
 - James Bursa fixed c-ares to find the hosts file on RISC OS, and made it