diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index fb43e7c6c2..e2cce0089e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ Changelog
  * Fix: Removed invalid use of `__` alias that prevented strings getting picked up for translation (Juha Yrjölä)
  * Fix: Routable pages without a main view no longer raise a `TypeError` (Bojan Mihelac)
  * Fix: Fixed UnicodeEncodeError in wagtailforms when downloading a CSV for a form containing non-ASCII field labels on Python 2 (Mikalai Radchuk)
+ * Fix: Server errors during search indexing on creating / updating / deleting a model are now logged, rather than causing the overall operation to fail (Karl Hobley)
+ * Fix: Objects are now correctly removed from search indexes on deletion (Karl Hobley)
 
 
 1.4.5 (xx.xx.xxxx) - IN DEVELOPMENT
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.5.rst b/docs/releases/1.5.rst
index 6a14002e7d..4f8516205e 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.5.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/1.5.rst
@@ -88,6 +88,8 @@ Bug fixes
  * Removed invalid use of ``__`` alias that prevented strings getting picked up for translation (Juha Yrjölä)
  * :ref:`Routable pages <routable_page_mixin>` without a main view no longer raise a ``TypeError`` (Bojan Mihelac)
  * Fixed UnicodeEncodeError in wagtailforms when downloading a CSV for a form containing non-ASCII field labels on Python 2 (Mikalai Radchuk)
+ * Server errors during search indexing on creating / updating / deleting a model are now logged, rather than causing the overall operation to fail (Karl Hobley)
+ * Objects are now correctly removed from search indexes on deletion (Karl Hobley)
 
 
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