diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index b94e3869a..ea70c48fc 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 General/project-related changes in the hledger project. 
 For package-specific changes, see the package changelogs.
 
+# 4db14ef7
+
+- add descriptions to most issue tracker labels
+
 # 1.15 2019-09-01
 
 - install: bump to lts-14.4, hledger 1.15, drop hledger-api
diff --git a/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md b/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md
index 744fc9018..02190b86d 100644
--- a/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger-lib/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,40 @@
 Internal/api/developer-ish changes in the hledger-lib (and hledger) packages.
 For user-visible changes, see the hledger package changelog.
 
+# aa20f34b
+
+- lib, cli, ui: start using Control.Monad.Fail, allow base-compat 0.11
+  fail is moving out of Monad and into it's own MonadFail class.
+  This will be enforced in GHC 8.8 (I think).
+
+  base-compat/base-compat-batteries 0.11.0 have adapted to this,
+  and are approaching stackage nightly
+  (https://github.com/commercialhaskell/stackage/issues/4802).
+
+  hledger is now ready to build with base-compat-batteries 0.11.0, once
+  all of our deps do (eg aeson). We are still compatible with the older
+  0.10.x and GHC 7.10.3 as well.
+
+  For now we are using both fails:
+
+  - new fail (from Control.Monad.Fail), used in our parsers, imported
+    via base-compat-batteries Control.Monad.Fail.Compat to work with
+    older GHC versions.
+
+  - old fail (from GHC.Base, exported by Prelude, Control.Monad,
+    Control.Monad.State.Strict, Prelude.Compat, ...), used in easytest's
+    Test, since I couldn't find their existing fail implementation to update.
+
+  To reduce (my) confusion, these are imported carefully, consistently,
+  and qualified everywhere as Fail.fail and Prelude.fail, with clashing
+  re-exports suppressed, like so:
+
+      import Prelude hiding (fail)
+      import qualified Prelude (fail)
+      import Control.Monad.State.Strict hiding (fail)
+      import "base-compat-batteries" Prelude.Compat hiding (fail)
+      import qualified "base-compat-batteries" Control.Monad.Fail.Compat as Fail
+
 # 1.15.2 2019-09-05
 
 Changes:
diff --git a/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md b/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md
index 93bd2e018..57a33c41c 100644
--- a/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger-ui/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 User-visible changes in hledger-ui.
 See also the hledger changelog.
 
+# aa20f34b
+
+- lib, cli, ui: start using Control.Monad.Fail, allow base-compat 0.11
+
 # 1.15 2019-09-01
 
 - allow brick >=0.47
diff --git a/hledger-web/CHANGES.md b/hledger-web/CHANGES.md
index e1857503e..f3cee339a 100644
--- a/hledger-web/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger-web/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 User-visible changes in hledger-web.
 See also the hledger changelog.
 
+# aa20f34b
+
+
 # 1.15 2019-09-01
 
 - --serve-api disables the usual server-side web UI (leaving only the API routes)
diff --git a/hledger/CHANGES.md b/hledger/CHANGES.md
index 0504d5f4f..d96d3041d 100644
--- a/hledger/CHANGES.md
+++ b/hledger/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,6 +1,27 @@
 User-visible changes in the hledger command line tool and library.
 
 
+# aa20f34b
+
+- import: message cleanups, mention input files
+  Only the --dry-run message needs the semicolon, so dry run output can
+  be piped into hledger.
+
+- import: --catchup marks all transactions imported, without importing
+
+- import: also show a message when nothing was imported
+
+- import: create the journal if missing, like the add command
+  Streamlines import/migration instructions.
+
+- bal: don't raise an error (maximum) when there is neither budget nor transactions in the report period (Dmitry Astapov)
+
+- bal: improve debug output for budget report (show budget txns) (Dmitry Astapov)
+
+- fix generation of periodic transactions with days/months/... repeat (Dmitry Astapov)
+
+- lib, cli, ui: start using Control.Monad.Fail, allow base-compat 0.11
+
 # 1.15.2 2019-09-05
 
 - -V and -X now respect a report end date (set with -e or -p or date:)