diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index b1f54c5dc34d66915f6804a47a743263939275a8..5225d99fc74f0165caf93714de30fa0862af450b 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -350,7 +350,12 @@ o Standards.EXIF
 
 o Standards.URI
 
-  Updated list of unsafe characters to RFC 3986. [bug 8004]
+  - Updated list of unsafe characters to RFC 3986. [bug 8004]
+
+  - String representations of the URI that are generated by the object
+    are now canonical again. This also fixes an issue where Standards.URI
+    instances compared identical under the == comparison, but would hash
+    differently.
 
 o Standards.X509