diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index c608bf4f314..477a6639dd7 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -179,6 +179,8 @@ Bug Fixes
 
 * SOLR-16899: CoreAdminOp are statically registered in CoreAdminHandler, preventing more than one Solr instance in the same JVM (Vincent Primault via Alex Deparvu)
 
+* SOLR-16973: fix REMOTE_JMX_OPTS to delayed expansion (Tiziano Degaetano via Colvin Cowie)
+
 Dependency Upgrades
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