diff --git a/doc/arm/notes.rst b/doc/arm/notes.rst
index ba5b428c0c..497731dbf6 100644
--- a/doc/arm/notes.rst
+++ b/doc/arm/notes.rst
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ https://www.isc.org/download/. There you will find additional
 information about each release, source code, and pre-compiled versions
 for Microsoft Windows operating systems.
 
+.. include:: ../notes/notes-current.rst
 .. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.7.rst
 .. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.6.rst
 .. include:: ../notes/notes-9.16.5.rst
diff --git a/doc/notes/notes-current.rst b/doc/notes/notes-current.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..93f4e7ecf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/notes/notes-current.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+.. 
+   Copyright (C) Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+   
+   This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+   License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+   file, you can obtain one at https://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+   
+   See the COPYRIGHT file distributed with this work for additional
+   information regarding copyright ownership.
+
+Notes for BIND 9.16.8
+---------------------
+
+Security Fixes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- None.
+
+Known Issues
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- None.
+
+New Features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- None.
+
+Removed Features
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- None.
+
+Feature Changes
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+- None.
+
+Bug Fixes
+~~~~~~~~~
+
+- None.
diff --git a/util/copyrights b/util/copyrights
index adbcda002f..f9f2704a84 100644
--- a/util/copyrights
+++ b/util/copyrights
@@ -1458,6 +1458,7 @@
 ./doc/notes/notes-9.16.5.rst			RST	2020
 ./doc/notes/notes-9.16.6.rst			RST	2020
 ./doc/notes/notes-9.16.7.rst			RST	2020
+./doc/notes/notes-current.rst			RST	2020
 ./docutil/HTML_COPYRIGHT			X	2001,2004,2016,2018,2019,2020
 ./docutil/MAN_COPYRIGHT				X	2001,2004,2016,2018,2019,2020
 ./docutil/patch-db2latex-duplicate-template-bug	X	2007,2018,2019,2020