Add notice for soon-to-be-deprecated variables

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diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 920bfd75ddb4..a02654909f72 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -10,6 +10,25 @@ in the release notes and/or placed into UPDATING.
 
 All ports committers are allowed to commit to this file.
 
+20171214
+AUTHOT: adamw@FreeBSD.org
+
+  Support for some deprecated variables is going to be removed soon. If
+  you use any of the following constructs (usually in /etc/make.conf),
+  you must switch to the new incantations:
+
+               OLD                                 NEW
+  -------------------------------    ------------------------------
+  WITH_[...]                         OPTIONS_SET= [...]
+  WITHOUT_[...]                      OPTIONS_UNSET= [...]
+  WITHOUT_NLS                        OPTIONS_UNSET= NLS
+  NOPORTDOCS                         OPTIONS_UNSET= DOCS
+  NOPORTEXAMPLES                     OPTIONS_UNSET= EXAMPLES
+  WITH_BDB_VER=[...]                 DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= bdb=[...]
+  OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=[...]     DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= linux=[...]
+  WITH_OPENSSL_BASE                  DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= ssl=base
+  WITH_OPENSSL_PORT                  DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= ssl=port
+
 20171130:
 AUTHOR: mat@FreeBSD.org