diff --git a/CHANGELOG.txt b/CHANGELOG.txt
index 986385d038..5e1d3fa8e0 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.txt
+++ b/CHANGELOG.txt
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ Changelog
  * Fix: Search no longer crashes when auto-indexing a model that doesn't have an id field (Scot Hacker)
  * Fix: The `wagtailfrontendcache` module's HTTP backend has been rewritten to reliably direct requests to the configured cache hostname
  * Fix: Resizing single pixel images with the "fill" filter no longer raises "ZeroDivisionError" or "tile cannot extend outside image"
+ * Fix: The queryset returned from `search` operations when using the database search backend now correctly preserves additional properties of the original query, such as `prefetch_related` / `select_related`
 
 
 1.0 (16.07.2015)
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.1.rst b/docs/releases/1.1.rst
index 0ed3c4c9e0..1ec77917a6 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.1.rst
+++ b/docs/releases/1.1.rst
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ Bug fixes
  * Search no longer crashes when auto-indexing a model that doesn't have an ``id`` field
  * The ``wagtailfrontendcache`` module's HTTP backend has been rewritten to reliably direct requests to the configured cache hostname
  * Resizing single pixel images with the "fill" filter no longer raises "ZeroDivisionError" or "tile cannot extend outside image"
+ * The queryset returned from ``search`` operations when using the database search backend now correctly preserves additional properties of the original query, such as ``prefetch_related`` / ``select_related``
 
 
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