diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index af43b7a217ca723893bc9622ae2a5616dd74ee7d..e579f3cc241bab65bd9d17edf97efc1088066eb5 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ Yang Tse (8 Jun 2009)
 - Igor Novoseltsev adjusted Makefile.vxworks to get sources and headers
   included from Makefile.inc, and provided docs\INSTALL VxWorks section.
 
+  I removed buildconf.bat from release and daily snapshot archives. This
+  file is only for CVS tree checkout builds.
+
 Daniel Stenberg (8 June 2009)
 - Eric Wong fixed --no-buffer to actually switch off output buffering. Been
   broken since 7.19.0
diff --git a/ares/CHANGES b/ares/CHANGES
index a095100bc731ebdaae9ce73a134ccb6289ff14e5..04bea6c53780abc18a8cdc58d1d0ee6723a0dcdf 100644
--- a/ares/CHANGES
+++ b/ares/CHANGES
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
   Changelog for the c-ares project
 
+* June 8 2009 (Yang Tse)
+- Removed buildconf.bat from release and daily snapshot archives. This
+  file is only for CVS tree checkout builds.
+
 * May 26 2009 (Yang Tse)
 - Added --enable-curldebug configure option to enable and disable building
   with the low-level curl debug memory tracking 'feature' to allow decoupled