diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
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+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -20,6 +20,10 @@ swift (1.6.0)
 
     * Added config options for rate limiting of large object downloads.
 
+    * Added config option `log_handoffs` (defaults to True) to proxy server
+      to log and update statsd with information about when a handoff node is
+      used. This is helpful to track the health of the cluster.
+
     * swift-bench can now use auth 2.0
 
     * Support forbidding substrings based on a regexp in name_filter