diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ BUG FIXES:
 * agent: Syslog initialization will now retry on errors for up to 60 seconds to avoid a race condition at system startup. [GH-1610]
 * agent: Fixed a panic when both -dev and -bootstrap-expect flags were provided. [GH-2464]
 * agent: Retry with backoff when a session fails to invalidate. [GH-2435]
+* agent: Fixed an issue where Consul would fail to start because of leftover malformed check/service state files. [GH-1221]
 * api: Trim leading slashes from keys/prefixes when querying KV endpoints to avoid a bug with redirects in Go 1.7 (golang/go#4800). [GH-2403]
 * dns: Fixed external services that pointed to consul addresses (CNAME records) not resolving to A-records. [GH-1228]
 * dns: Fixed an issue with SRV lookups where the service address was different from the node's. [GH-832]