diff --git a/notes/coredns-1.7.0.md b/notes/coredns-1.7.0.md
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--- a/notes/coredns-1.7.0.md
+++ b/notes/coredns-1.7.0.md
@@ -11,11 +11,48 @@ The CoreDNS team has released
 [CoreDNS-1.7.0](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/releases/tag/v1.7.0).
 
 This is a **backwards incompatible release**. Major changes include:
-* Better metrics names (PR #3776)
+* Better [metrics names](https://github.com/coredns/coredns/pull/3776).
 * New `transfer` plugin that removes the need for plugins to perform their own zone transfers.
+* The *federation* plugin (allows for v1 Kubernetes federation) has been removed. We've also removed
+  some supporting code from the *kubernetes* plugin, so it will not build as an external plugin
+  (with this version of CoreDNS).
 
-As this was already backwards incompatible release, we took the liberty to stuff is much of it in
+As this was already backwards incompatible release, we took the liberty to stuff as much of it in
 one release as possible to minimize the disruption going forward.
 
+A new plugin, [*dns64*](https://coredns.io/plugins/dns64) as promoted from external to a plugin that
+is included by default. This plugin "enables DNS64 IPv6 transition mechanism."
+
+### Metric Changes
+
+It's mostly dropping `count` from `_total` metrics names:
+
+* `coredns_request_block_count_total` -\> `coredns_dns_blocked_requests_total`
+* `coredns_request_allow_count_total` -\> `coredns_dns_allowed_requests_total`
+
+* `coredns_dns_acl_request_block_count_total` -\> `coredns_acl_blocked_requests_total`
+* `coredns_dns_acl_request_allow_count_total` -\> `coredns_acl_allowed_requests_total`
+
+* `coredns_autopath_success_count_total` -\> `coredns_autopath_success_total`
+
+* `coredns_forward_request_count_total` -\> `coredns_forward_requests_total`
+* `coredns_forward_response_rcode_count_total` -\> `coredns_forward_responses_total`
+* `coredns_forward_healthcheck_failure_count_total` -\> `coredns_forward_healthcheck_failures_total`
+* `coredns_forward_healthcheck_broken_count_total` -\> `coredns_forward_healthcheck_broken_total`
+* `coredns_forward_max_concurrent_reject_count_total` -\> `coredns_forward_max_concurrent_rejects_total`
+
+* `coredns_grpc_request_count_total` -\> `coredns_grpc_requests_total`
+* `coredns_grpc_response_rcode_count_total` -\> `coredns_grpc_responses_total`
+
+* `coredns_panic_count_total` -\> `coredns_panics_total`
+* `coredns_dns_request_count_total` -\> `coredns_dns_requests_total`
+* `coredns_dns_request_do_count_total` -\> `coredns_dns_do_requests_total`
+* `coredns_dns_response_rcode_count_total` -\> `coredns_dns_responses_total`
+
+* `coredns_reload_failed_count_total` -\> `coredns_reload_failed_total`
+
+And note that
+`coredns_dns_request_type_count_total` is now part of `coredns_dns_requests_total` .
+
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