diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 0edbe3802..d61ff88e6 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -3,9 +3,22 @@ SWIG (Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator)
 Version 1.3 Alpha 4 (not yet released)
 ======================================
 
+8/4/00  : ttn
+	  Added Makefile target "check" and variants.
+	  This can be used like "make check" or, to explicitly skip a
+	  language LANG: "make skip-LANG=true check".  LANG is skipped
+	  automatically if ./configure determines that LANG support is
+	  insufficient.
+
+	  Currently, the check is limited to doing the equivalent of
+	  "make all" in some of the Examples directories.  This should
+	  be expanded both horizontally (different types of tests) and
+	  vertically (after "make all" in an Examples subdir succeeds,
+	  do some additional tests with the resulting interpreter, etc).
+
 8/4/00  : ttn
 	  Added Makefile target "distclean", which deletes all the
-	  files ./configure creates.
+	  files ./configure creates, including config.status and friends.
 
 8/3/00  : harcoh
 	  java changes??? [todo: document changes]
@@ -21,26 +34,26 @@ Version 1.3 Alpha 4 (not yet released)
           respect to interfaces involving pass-by-value.
 
 7/23/00 : beazley
-          Modified the parser so that variable declarations of the form 
+          Modified the parser so that variable declarations of the form
           "const type *a" are handled as variables, not constants.
-          Note: SWIG1.1 handled this case erroneously because 
+          Note: SWIG1.1 handled this case erroneously because
           const char *a is a pointer variable that can be reassigned.
           *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
           Note: just because this is the "right" way to do things,
           doesn't mean it's the most appropriate interpretation.
-          I suspect that many C programmers might use 'const char *' 
+          I suspect that many C programmers might use 'const char *'
           with the intent of creating a constant, without realizing
           that they've created a reassignable global variable.
 
 7/23/00 : beazley
           The C/C++ wrapping layer has been completely redesigned and
-          reimplemented.  This change should iron out a few rough 
+          reimplemented.  This change should iron out a few rough
           spots with the handling of datatypes.  In addition, the
-          wrapper code is somewhat cleaner.  
+          wrapper code is somewhat cleaner.
           *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
           This change may break interfaces that involve
-          subtle corner-cases with typemaps and the %addmethods 
-          directive since some of these features had somewhat 
+          subtle corner-cases with typemaps and the %addmethods
+          directive since some of these features had somewhat
           type handling behavior in SWIG1.1.
 
 7/23/00 : beazley
@@ -64,7 +77,7 @@ Version 1.3 Alpha 4 (not yet released)
           to achieve similar results.   This also cleans up the
           handling of types and parameters quite a bit.
           *** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
-          
+
 7/20/00 : ttn
 	  Fixed unspecified-module bug in Guile support and removed
 	  more non-"with-smobs" functionality using patches submitted