diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 714db841710b9ce484a423b24b930d3d9192376c..b9012dd3682b0708b40624d939e57166808ceee4 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,11 @@
 
                                   Changelog
 
+Daniel (19 September 2004)
+- Andreas Rieke pointed out that when attempting to connect to a host without
+  a service on the specified port, curl_easy_perform() didn't properly provide
+  an error message in the CURLOPT_ERRORBUFFER buffer.
+
 Daniel (16 September 2004)
 - Daniel at touchtunes uses the FTP+SSL server "BSDFTPD-SSL from
   http://bsdftpd-ssl.sc.ru/" which accordingly doesn't properly work with curl
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 75e7ede09f3c9707825e3387763d35dee7fc4d31..d48bdafbd4652391093e9f44bcc890d2d49ff39b 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ This release includes the following changes:
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
+ o connect failures properly writes error message in errorbuffer
  o Rare Location:-following problem with bad original URL
  o -F can now add Content-Type on non-file sections
  o double Host: header when following Location: with replaced Host: fixed
@@ -39,6 +40,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
 
  Casey O'Donnell, Roland Krikava, Alex, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Kjetil
  Jacobsen, Ling Thio, Roman Koifman, Harshal Pradhan, Jonas Forsman, David
- Tarendash, Daniel at touchtunes, Bertrand Demiddelaer
+ Tarendash, Daniel at touchtunes, Bertrand Demiddelaer, Andreas Rieke
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)