diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 85b06f6d43..6b652228a3 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+5972.	[bug]		Gracefully handle when the statschannel HTTP connection
+			gets cancelled during sending data back to the client.
+			[GL #3542]
+
 5971.	[func]		Add libsystemd sd_notify() support. [GL #1176]
 
 5970.	[func]		Log the reason why a query was refused. [GL !6669]
diff --git a/doc/notes/notes-current.rst b/doc/notes/notes-current.rst
index 8d10c30d8e..1bdaa66242 100644
--- a/doc/notes/notes-current.rst
+++ b/doc/notes/notes-current.rst
@@ -60,4 +60,5 @@ Feature Changes
 Bug Fixes
 ~~~~~~~~~
 
-- None.
+- An assertion failure was fixed in ``named`` that was caused by aborting the statistics
+  channel connection while sending statistics data to the client.  :gl:`#3542`