diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 0ebcbb6de8..96e4b9e8db 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+5954.	[func]		Fallback to IDNA2003 processing in dig when IDNA2008
+			conversion fails. [GL #3485]
+
 5953.	[bug]		Fix a crash on shutdown in delete_trace_entry(). Add
 			mctx attach/detach pair to make sure that the memory
 			context used by a memory pool is not destroyed before
diff --git a/doc/notes/notes-current.rst b/doc/notes/notes-current.rst
index 6d18e240e6..e97eb97108 100644
--- a/doc/notes/notes-current.rst
+++ b/doc/notes/notes-current.rst
@@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ Feature Changes
   DNSKEY records have been removed from the zone, then switch to using NSEC3.
   :gl:`#3486`
 
+- Implement a backwards compatible approach for encoding the internationalized
+  domain names (IDN) in dig, and convert the domain to IDNA2008 form, and if
+  that fails try the IDNA2003 conversion. :gl:`#3485`
+
 Bug Fixes
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