diff --git a/CHANGES.current b/CHANGES.current
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--- a/CHANGES.current
+++ b/CHANGES.current
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ the issue number to the end of the URL: https://github.com/swig/swig/issues/
 Version 4.0.2 (in progress)
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+2020-01-31: ZackerySpytz
+            [Python] #1700 More robust error checking for failures in calls to Python C API:
+            PyBytes_AsStringAndSize() and PyString_AsStringAndSize().
+
 2020-01-31: vadz
             [Python] #1710 Fix crash parsing empty docstrings.