diff --git a/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html b/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html
index 9b3ce378e..7efe63498 100644
--- a/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html
+++ b/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 <h2 align="center">Changes between 3.14.11 and 3.14.12</h2>
 <!-- Insert new items immediately below here ... -->
 
+<h4>Named Soft Events</h4>
+
+<p>Soft events can now be meaningful strings instead of numbers 1-255. 
+
 <h4>Rewrite epicsThreadOnce()</h4>
 
 <p>Michael Davidsaver suggested a better implementation of epicsThreadOnce()