diff --git a/reference/mongo/book.xml b/reference/mongo/book.xml
index 462327ec87..e805a9a949 100644
--- a/reference/mongo/book.xml
+++ b/reference/mongo/book.xml
@@ -17,12 +17,7 @@
  &reference.mongo.misc;
  &reference.mongo.reference;
  &reference.mongo.exceptions;
-
-<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="changelog.mongo">
- <title>&ChangelogListingTitle;</title>
- <para>&ChangelogListingDescription;</para>
- <?phpdoc generate-changelog-for="ref.mongo class.mongo class.mongobindata class.mongoclient class.mongocode class.mongocollection class.mongocursor class.mongodate class.mongodb class.mongodbref class.mongogridfs class.mongogridfscursor class.mongogridfsfile class.mongoid class.mongoint32 class.mongoint64 class.mongolog class.mongopool class.mongoregex class.mongotimestamp" ?>
-</appendix>
+ &reference.mongo.changelog;
 
 </book>
 
diff --git a/reference/mongo/changelog.xml b/reference/mongo/changelog.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5375c354dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reference/mongo/changelog.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- $Revision$ -->
+
+<appendix xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xml:id="changelog.mongo" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
+ <title>&ChangelogListingTitle;</title>
+ <para>&ChangelogListingDescription;</para>
+
+ <!-- This should probably be changed to <section> once we start covering 1.4,
+      1.5, 1.6, etc etc etc -->
+ <simplesect xml:id="changelog.mongo.1.3">
+  <title>MongoDB PHP Driver 1.3.0</title>
+  <para>
+   The 1.3 series introduced several major changes to the extension such as
+   completely rewritten <link linkend="mongo.connecting">connection
+   handling</link> (and removal of the pooling mechanism), support for
+   <link linkend="mongo.readpreferences">ReadPreferences</link> and change the
+   default <link linkend="mongo.writes">WriteConcerns</link> to be
+   <emphasis>acknowledged</emphasis> by introducing a new class
+   <link linkend="class.mongoclient">MongoClient</link> which serves as a
+   replacement class for the now deprecated <classname>Mongo</classname> class.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   The driver now also supports connecting to multiple mongos instances (the
+   Mongo Shard router) for loadbalancing.
+  </para>
+  <para>
+   Other enhancements include improved logging for easier connection handling
+   debugging with <classname>MongoLog</classname> and support for the
+   <link xlink:href="&url.mongodb.docs.aggregation;">Aggregation Framework</link>
+   via the <methodname>MongoCollection::aggregate</methodname> method.
+  </para>
+ </simplesect>
+
+
+ <title>Changes to existing methods</title>
+ <?phpdoc generate-changelog-for="ref.mongo class.mongo class.mongobindata class.mongoclient class.mongocode class.mongocollection class.mongocursor class.mongodate class.mongodb class.mongodbref class.mongogridfs class.mongogridfscursor class.mongogridfsfile class.mongoid class.mongoint32 class.mongoint64 class.mongolog class.mongopool class.mongoregex class.mongotimestamp" ?>
+
+
+</appendix>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
+Local variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-omittag:t
+sgml-shorttag:t
+sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
+sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
+sgml-indent-step:1
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+sgml-parent-document:nil
+sgml-default-dtd-file:"~/.phpdoc/manual.ced"
+sgml-exposed-tags:nil
+sgml-local-catalogs:nil
+sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
+End:
+vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
+vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
+vi: ts=1 sw=1
+-->
+