diff --git a/HISTORY.rst b/HISTORY.rst
index e259526c82..5fba951d48 100644
--- a/HISTORY.rst
+++ b/HISTORY.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 ==================
 - Fix navigation issue that make it impossible to add new sources. GitLab issue #288.
 - The Tesseract OCR backend now reports if the requested language file is missing. GitLab issue #289.
+- Ensure the automatic default index is created after the default document type.
 
 2.1 (2016-05-14)
 ================
diff --git a/docs/releases/2.1.1.rst b/docs/releases/2.1.1.rst
index e5268e6550..c830e69789 100644
--- a/docs/releases/2.1.1.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/2.1.1.rst
@@ -21,6 +21,12 @@ Missing Tesseract language files
 The Tesseract OCR backend now reports if the tesseract language file is missing
 for the requested document's language.
 
+Other changes
+-------------
+
+- Ensure the automatic default index is created after the default document type.
+
+
 Removals
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 * None