diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index e37c4e36a..313eb3bc3 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -126,6 +126,8 @@ Version 1.6.0alpha01 [November 27, 2011]
     seems likely that it will ask 'malloc' for more than 65535 bytes with any
     image that has a sufficiently large row size (rather than simply failing
     to read such images).
+  Removed machine-generated configure files from the GIT repository (they will
+    continue to appear in the tarball distributions).
 
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diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 157e511b6..2bf600649 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3771,6 +3771,8 @@ Version 1.6.0alpha01 [November 27, 2011]
     seems likely that it will ask 'malloc' for more than 65535 bytes with any
     image that has a sufficiently large row size (rather than simply failing
     to read such images).
+  Removed machine-generated configure files from the GIT repository (they will
+    continue to appear in the tarball distributions).
 
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