diff --git a/src/changes/release-notes.vm b/src/changes/release-notes.vm
index 97122d5e2d..9401b57fd2 100644
--- a/src/changes/release-notes.vm
+++ b/src/changes/release-notes.vm
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ${project.name} ${version}!
 The Byte Code Engineering Library (BCEL) is intended to give users a convenient
 way to analyze, create, and manipulate compiled .class files. Classes are
 represented by objects containing all the symbolic information of the given
-class: methods, fields and byte code instructions.
+class: methods, fields, and byte code instructions.
 
 ##$introduction.replaceAll("(?<!\015)\012", "
 ##").replaceAll("(?m)^ +","")