diff --git a/general-info/release-19a.txt b/general-info/release-19a.txt
index 7116602cb32c97d9b0a6f659a4d1f3614bb001f7..6de36a729381d8a22cccf22e8aa66f484375ac25 100644
--- a/general-info/release-19a.txt
+++ b/general-info/release-19a.txt
@@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ New in this release:
      - (SETF EXT:WEAK-POINTER-VALUE) has been added.
      - CMUCL no longer entering an infinite loop when dumping
        circular constant lists to fasl files.
+     - COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME's BYTE-COMPILE keyword arg defaulting
+       to *BYTE-COMPILE-DEFAULT* like COMPILE-FILE.
 
   * Numerous ANSI compliance fixes:
      - Many bugs in CMUCL's type system detected by Paul Dietz'