diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 32b2e84080..f07ffbcb4b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+	--- 9.10.0rc1 released ---
+
 3804.	[bug]		Corrected a race condition in dispatch.c in which
 			portentry could be reset leading to an assertion
 			failure in socket_search(). (Change #3708
@@ -10,8 +12,6 @@
 
 3802.	[bug]		Various header files were not being installed.
 
-	--- 9.10.0rc1 released ---
-
 3801.	[port]		Fix probing for gssapi support on FreeBSD. [RT #35615]
 
 3800.	[bug]		A pending event on the route socket could cause an