diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 4a984a502f..9de7d15fab 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Changelog
  * Allow a custom image rendition model to define its unique constraint with `models.UniqueConstraint` instead of `unique_together` (Oliver Parker, Cynthia Kiser, Sage Abdullah)
  * Default to the `standard` tokenizer on Elasticsearch, to correctly handle numbers as tokens (Matt Westcott)
  * Add color-scheme meta tag to Wagtail admin (Ashish Nagmoti)
+ * Add the ability to set the default privacy restriction for new pages using `get_default_privacy_setting` (Shlomo Markowitz)
  * Fix: Take preferred language into account for translatable strings in client-side code (Bernhard Bliem, Sage Abdullah)
  * Fix: Do not show the content type column as sortable when searching pages (Srishti Jaiswal, Sage Abdullah)
  * Fix: Support simple subqueries for `in` and `exact` lookup on Elasticsearch (Sage Abdullah)
diff --git a/docs/releases/6.5.md b/docs/releases/6.5.md
index b73e68587e..9cfe202cd9 100644
--- a/docs/releases/6.5.md
+++ b/docs/releases/6.5.md
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ depth: 1
  * Allow a custom image rendition model to define its unique constraint with `models.UniqueConstraint` instead of `unique_together` (Oliver Parker, Cynthia Kiser, Sage Abdullah)
  * Default to the `standard` tokenizer on Elasticsearch, to correctly handle numbers as tokens (Matt Westcott)
  * Add color-scheme meta tag to Wagtail admin (Ashish Nagmoti)
+ * Add the ability to set the [default privacy restriction for new pages](set_default_page_privacy) using `get_default_privacy_setting` (Shlomo Markowitz)
 
 ### Bug fixes