diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 15c3ceb10..973ef3d21 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -7,6 +7,12 @@
                                   Changelog
 
 Daniel (8 November 2004)
+- Made the configure script check for tld.h if libidn was detected, since
+  libidn 0.3.X didn't have such a header and we don't work with anything
+  before libidn 0.4.1 anyway! Suse 9.1 apparently ships with a 0.3.X version
+  of libidn which makes the curl 7.12.2 build fail. Jean-Philippe
+  Barrette-LaPierre helped pointing this out.
+
 - Ian Gulliver reported in debian bug report #278691: if curl is invoked in an
   environment where stderr is closed the -v output will still be sent to file
   descriptor 2 which then might be the network socket handle! Now we have a
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 48b2607db..5cabde4f5 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ This release includes the following changes:
 
 This release includes the following bugfixes:
 
+ o curl -v when stderr is closed wrote debug messages to the network socket
+ o build failure with libidn 0.3.X or older
  o huge POSTs on VMS
  o configure no longer uses pkg-config on cross-compiles
  o potential gzip decompress memory leak
@@ -35,6 +37,6 @@ advice from friends like these:
 
  Peter Wullinger, Guillaume Arluison, Alexander Krasnostavsky, Mohun Biswas,
  Tomas Pospisek, Gisle Vanem, Dan Fandrich, Paul Nolan, Andres Garcia,
- Tim Sneddon
+ Tim Sneddon, Ian Gulliver, Jean-Philippe Barrette-LaPierre
 
         Thanks! (and sorry if I forgot to mention someone)