diff --git a/CHANGES_NEXT_RELEASE b/CHANGES_NEXT_RELEASE
index e69de29bb2..b3653d7bde 100644
--- a/CHANGES_NEXT_RELEASE
+++ b/CHANGES_NEXT_RELEASE
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+- Reference distribution changed from RHEL/CentOS 7 to RHEL/CentOS 8 (#3764)
+- Reference MongoDB version changed from 3.6 to 4.4
+- Add: SCRAM-SHA-256 as allowed mechanism in -dbAuthMech (#3782)
+- Add: tlsAllowInvalidCertificates=true to mongo connection URI along with tls=true when -dbSSL switch is used
+- Hardening: MongoDB connection logic largely rewritten
+- Hardening: upgrade Mongo driver dependency form C++ legacy-1.1.2 to C 1.17.4 (#3132 and possibly #3717, #3778, #3797, #3326)
+- Remove: MONGODB-CR as -dbAuthMech
diff --git a/src/lib/mongoDriver/mongoConnectionPool.cpp b/src/lib/mongoDriver/mongoConnectionPool.cpp
index 3873a9a929..ee04d3c2a9 100644
--- a/src/lib/mongoDriver/mongoConnectionPool.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/mongoDriver/mongoConnectionPool.cpp
@@ -255,6 +255,8 @@ static orion::DBConnection mongoConnect
 */
 static void shutdownClient(void)
 {
+  LM_T(LmtMongo, ("shutdown mongo client"));
+
   for (int ix = 0; ix < connectionPoolSize; ++ix)
   {
     if (!connectionPool[ix].connection.isNull())