diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 53593af11..29e587778 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -312,6 +312,7 @@ Tom Yan <tom.ty89@gmail.com>
     * Several fixes to the MPEG 1/2 video handling code.
     * Fix to DVD chapter timestamp calculation for NTSC discs
     * Fix to 7.1 channel AAC extraction
+    * Blu-ray PCM channel layout re-ordering
 
 Trinine <trinine@free.fr>
     * French translation
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 26449ea02..6e561f624 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@
   following new track header elements: "hearing impaired" flag, "visual
   impaired" flag, "text descriptions" flag, "original" flag, "commentary"
   flag. Implements #3011.
+* mkvmerge: MPEG transport stream reader, PCM audio tracks: mkvmerge will now
+  re-order the channels for 5.1, 7.0 and 7.1 channel tracks from the Blu-ray
+  layout to the WAVEFORMATEXTENSIBLE layout expected in Matroska. Patch by Tom
+  Yan. Implements #2988.
 
 ## Bug fixes