diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 428b8e1091f5e239dcb67db483eefc754c27a6dd..02f98e4f2b72cda043a508fcef61532831bb038a 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@
 
 
 Daniel (4 October)
+- Jon Turner fixed a problem libcurl had when it failed on an FTP transfer due
+  to a bad path, it would cause the next transfer to use a bad path as well.
+
 - Siddhartha Prakash Jain provided a patch with a fix for libcurl with ares,
   when working on IP-only names as we then could return "wait" status when the
   name in fact already was resolved. I edited the patch slightly to not expose
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index ed815b20042d03d220ae7bcbff7918011b9f8939..a0be9610003b021607fea84f7c86fed0fe967f1c 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ This release includes the following changes:
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
+ o if an FTP transfer used a bad path, the next transfer could fail too
  o ares-built libcurl resolves IP-only names properly
  o changed the curl_lock_function proto to prevent warnings on some compilers
  o builds fine on QNX 6.2.x now
@@ -58,6 +59,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
  Sanders, John McGowan, Henrik Storner, Jörg Mueller-Tolk, Peter Pentchev,
  Early Ehlinger, Kevin Fisk, Jurij Smakov, Bjorn Reese, Tim Bartley, David
  Kimdon, Dominick Meglio, Markus Moeller, Giuseppe Attardi, James MacMillan,
- Neil Spring, Siddhartha Prakash Jain
+ Neil Spring, Siddhartha Prakash Jain, Jon Turner
  
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)