diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 0f9c67749..2397a25d1 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ Version 1.7.0alpha01 [December 15, 2012]
     the hardware subdirectory, and add comments to pngrutil.c so that
     implementors of other optimizations will know what to do.
   Fixed cases of unquoted DESTDIR in Makefile.am.
+  Rebuilt Makefile.in, configure, etc., with autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.12.5.
 
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diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index ce3642375..7d90babfb 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -4344,6 +4344,7 @@ Version 1.7.0alpha01 [December 15, 2012]
     the hardware subdirectory, and add comments to pngrutil.c so that
     implementors of other optimizations will know what to do.
   Fixed cases of unquoted DESTDIR in Makefile.am.
+  Rebuilt Makefile.in, configure, etc., with autoconf-2.69 and automake-1.12.5.
 
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