diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index c5185f7eec..480a2986c9 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ version <next>:
 - Icecast protocol
 - ported lenscorrection filter from frei0r filter
 - large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable
-- request Icecast metadata by default
+- ICY metadata are now requested by default with the HTTP protocol
 - support for using metadata in stream specifiers in fftools
 - LZMA compression support in TIFF decoder
 - support for H.261 RTP payload format (RFC 4587)
diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index a8b19c5c6c..5499cfd54d 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -2,13 +2,22 @@
  │ RELEASE NOTES for FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel" │
  └────────────────────────────────────────┘
 
-   The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel", ...
-   FFmpeg 2.4 is mostly API-, but not ABI-compatible with the previous major release.
-   This means that the code using our libraries needs to be rebuilt, but only minimal
-   source changes should be required, as described in the section 'API Information'.
+   The FFmpeg Project proudly presents FFmpeg 2.4 "Fresnel", just 2 months
+   after the release of 2.3. Since this wasn't a long time ago, the Changelog
+   is a bit short this time.
+
+   The most important thing in this release is the major version bump of the
+   libraries.  This means that this release is neither ABI-compatible nor
+   fully API-compatible. But on the other hand it is aligned with the Libav
+   11 release series, and will as a result probably end up being maintained for
+   a long time.
+
+   As usual, if you have any question on this release or any FFmpeg related
+   topic, feel free to join us on the #ffmpeg IRC channel (on
+   irc.freenode.net).
 
    ┌────────────────────────────┐
-   │ *  API Information         │
+   │ 🔨  API Information         │
    └────────────────────────────┘
 
      FFmpeg 2.4 includes the following library versions:
@@ -28,8 +37,9 @@
          cause crashes, if it is not initialized.
        • Some deprecated functions were removed.
        • The avfilter_graph_parse function was made compatible with Libav.
+       • The Matroska demuxer now outputs verbatim ASS packets.
 
-     Please refer to the doc/APIChanges file for more information.
+     Please refer to the doc/APIchanges file for more information.
 
  ┌────────────────────────────┐
  │ ★  List of New Features    │
@@ -39,23 +49,25 @@
    │ libavformat                │
    └────────────────────────────┘
 
-    • Icecast protocol
+    • Icecast protocol.
     • API for live metadata updates through event flags.
+    • UTF-16 support in text subtitles formats.
+    • The ASS muxer now reorders the Dialogue events properly.
 
    ┌────────────────────────────┐
    │ libavfilter                │
    └────────────────────────────┘
 
-    • ported lenscorrection filter from frei0r filter
-    • large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable
-    • added codecview filter to visualize information exported by some codecs
-    • added silenceremove filter
+    • Ported lenscorrection filter from frei0r filter.
+    • Large optimizations in dctdnoiz to make it usable.
+    • Added codecview filter to visualize information exported by some codecs.
+    • Added silenceremove filter.
 
    ┌────────────────────────────┐
    │ libavutil                  │
    └────────────────────────────┘
 
-    • added clip() function in eval
+    • Added clip() function in eval.
 
  ┌────────────────────────────┐
  │ ⚠  Behaviour changes       │
@@ -66,3 +78,4 @@
   • libmodplug is now detected through pkg-config
   • HTML documentation generation through texi2html is deprecated in
     favor of makeinfo/texi2any
+  • ICY metadata are now requested by default with the HTTP protocol