diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 1e6d0f539584490a63e03a890c1210c5868b5a88..c45653b4424106e4fb00e1823f6f4f76bccbd5d3 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@
                                   Changelog
 
 
+Daniel (15 October)
+- Avoid doing getsockopt() on Windows to verify connects. It seems that this
+  hogs Windows machines when libcurl is being used multi-threaded (with > ~50
+  threads). Andrew Fuller helped us verify and test this.
+
 Daniel (14 October)
 - Kimmo Kinnunen fixed a crash with duphandle() when CURLDEBUG is set.
 
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 0cb3f3240794449ea8b247fe991e4664015adff6..802ceea7a861d37c8fdeda86b5cdcb94f64b53f8 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ This release includes the following changes:
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
+ o improved performance when used multi-threaded on windows
  o share-locking during DNS lookups was modified
  o resume was not possible to switch off properly once enabled
  o fixed the ipv4 connect code when a DNS entry has multiple IPs
@@ -69,6 +70,7 @@ advice from friends like these:
  Kimdon, Dominick Meglio, Markus Moeller, Giuseppe Attardi, James MacMillan,
  Neil Spring, Siddhartha Prakash Jain, Jon Turner, Vincent Bronner, Shard,
  Jeremy Friesner, Florian Schoppmann, Neil Dunbar, Frank Ticheler, Lachlan
- O'Dea, Dirk Manske, Domenico Andreoli, Gisle Vanem, Kimmo Kinnunen
+ O'Dea, Dirk Manske, Domenico Andreoli, Gisle Vanem, Kimmo Kinnunen, Andrew
+ Fuller
  
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)