diff --git a/AUTHORS.txt b/AUTHORS.txt
index b5b3d61d1..64477f207 100644
--- a/AUTHORS.txt
+++ b/AUTHORS.txt
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ Ian Bicking
 Igor Sobreira
 Ionel Maries Cristian
 Jakub Vysoky
+James Cleveland
 Jannis Leidel
 Jay Graves
 John-Scott Atlakson
diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index 91e7c29cf..9c2240a2b 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ Changelog
 develop (unreleased)
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+* SSL Cert Verification; Make https the default for PyPI access.
+  Thanks James Cleveland and many others (Pull #789).
+
 * Added "pip list" for listing installed packages and the latest version
   available. Thanks Rafael Caricio, Miguel Araujo, Dmitry Gladkov (Pull #752)