diff --git a/CHANGELOG.markdown b/CHANGELOG.markdown
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..6c0340e61b9a5ec8086a80b58123dae737139a8c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG.markdown
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+0.3.8
+-----
+* Performance tweaks
+* bytestring-in-base flag default to False
diff --git a/utf8-string.cabal b/utf8-string.cabal
index fa6160a131b3fcc7ce0da834c9e7c349d978ab84..221b004ecbef6f5b1aa7c80fcd553936b077352e 100644
--- a/utf8-string.cabal
+++ b/utf8-string.cabal
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ Description:        A UTF8 layer for IO and Strings. The utf8-string
 Category:           Codec
 Build-type:         Simple
 cabal-version:      >= 1.2
+Extra-Source-Files: CHANGELOG.markdown
+
 
 flag bytestring-in-base
   default: False