From 1514ce2c84a6397e114a93622876b6bebd6a3e86 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: phlummox <phlummox@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2025 02:42:24 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] update CHANGELOG.md, point readers to release-1.9 branch

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1de3c196..ad761187 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -7,6 +7,14 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+## [1.9.7] - 2025-10-10
+
+The master branch has been heavily updated for some major changes, and in the meantime,
+maintenance has been occurring on the release-1.9 branch. Please refer to the release-1.9
+branch changelog for releases 1.9.5-1.9.7:
+
+<https://github.com/slackhq/nebula/blob/release-1.9/CHANGELOG.md>
+
 ### Changed
 
 - `default_local_cidr_any` now defaults to false, meaning that any firewall rule