diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 73556b9286..4ee23df0a4 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -154,6 +154,10 @@ Miscellaneous
    can connect calls in passthrough mode, as well as record and play back files.
  * Successful and unsuccessful call pickup can now be alerted through sounds, by
    using pickupsound and pickupfailsound in features.conf.
+ * ASTVARRUNDIR is now set to $(localstatedir)/run/asterisk by default. 
+   This means the asterisk pid file will now be in /var/run/asterisk/asterisk.pid on LINUX
+   instead of the /var/run/asterisk.pid where it used to be. This will make
+   installs as non-root easier to manage.
 
 Asterisk Manager Interface
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