diff --git a/CHANGES.rst b/CHANGES.rst
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+++ b/CHANGES.rst
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ The ASDF Standard is at v1.6.0
 
 - Deprecate ``asdf.asdf`` and ``AsdfFile.resolve_and_inline`` [#1690]
 
+- Introduce ``asdf.util.load_yaml`` to load just the YAML contents
+  of an ASDF file (with the option ``as_tagged`` to load the contents
+  as a tree of ``asdf.tagged.Tagged`` instances to preserve tags) [#1700]
+
 3.0.1 (2023-10-30)
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