diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 48c4e4fe24..86ae2bce77 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -258,3 +258,8 @@ Documentation Changes
 
 - Improve output of p* script descriptions for help.
   See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/2886
+
+- Quick Tour, Quick Tutorial, and most files throughout the documentation have
+  been updated to use cookiecutters instead of pcreate and scaffolds.
+  See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/2888 and
+  https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/2889
diff --git a/docs/whatsnew-1.8.rst b/docs/whatsnew-1.8.rst
index e666f0cd16..908c17ec4f 100644
--- a/docs/whatsnew-1.8.rst
+++ b/docs/whatsnew-1.8.rst
@@ -212,3 +212,8 @@ Documentation Enhancements
 
   See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/2881 and
   https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/2883.
+
+- Quick Tour, Quick Tutorial, and most files throughout the documentation have
+  been updated to use cookiecutters instead of pcreate and scaffolds.
+  See https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/2888 and
+  https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid/pull/2889