diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 8b2fb8a38ac6bb131559ab6e96ab8dc95c12d103..c9e6b57b06711ab797978e15a19772e6823a36ba 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # vi: noexpandtab softtabstop=0
 ## Process this file with automake to produce Makefile.in
 
-EXTRA_DIST = FAQ.md README.md COPYING AUTHORS INSTALL.md NEWS ChangeLog \
+EXTRA_DIST = FAQ.md README.md COPYING AUTHORS INSTALL.md NEWS CHANGELOG.md \
              backupninja.spec backupninja.spec.in autogen.sh
 
 SUBDIRS = etc examples handlers lib man src
diff --git a/RELEASE.md b/RELEASE.md
index fef717bbddbd10d576fbe91fddf00c3a7b08964f..7a8e8e08e3009df464154febe9a1ba010b4a04cc 100644
--- a/RELEASE.md
+++ b/RELEASE.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Upstream
 
 * commit, tag and create the tarball:
 
-        git commit configure.ac ChangeLog \
+        git commit configure.ac CHANGELOG.md \
             -m "Releasing backupninja $VERSION" && \
         git clean -fdx && \
         git tag -s "backupninja-$VERSION" \
diff --git a/backupninja.spec.in b/backupninja.spec.in
index 0d034ebebf3122bb54737e8fd28743114abbcde3..4b883804e966d7ef0fc765f511722cfb46f9696e 100644
--- a/backupninja.spec.in
+++ b/backupninja.spec.in
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ rm -fr %{buildroot}
 
 %ghost %{_localstatedir}/log/backupninja.log
 
-%doc AUTHORS COPYING ChangeLog INSTALL.md NEWS README.md
+%doc AUTHORS COPYING CHANGELOG.md INSTALL.md NEWS README.md
 %{_mandir}/man1/*
 %{_mandir}/man5/*