diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 1e344eeec..d5e0bfc4a 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -64,6 +64,9 @@ Fixed bugs:
 * <splash> used to break the build on non-GUI environments.  Bugzilla
   report 11482.
 
+* Ant 1.6.0 cannot run build scripts in directories with non-ASCII names.
+  Bugzilla Report 26642.
+
 Other changes:
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 * Shipped XML parser is now Xerces-J 2.6.1