diff --git a/docs/about/whats_new.rst b/docs/about/whats_new.rst
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@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ What's New
 v1.8.next
 =========
 
+v1.8.6 (30 September 2021)
+=======================
+
+- Fix for searching for multiple products, now works with ``product="product_name"``
+  as well as ``product=["product_name1", "product_name2"]`` (:pull:`1201`)
 - Added ``dataset purge`` command for hard deletion of archived datasets. 
   ``--all`` option deletes all archived datasets.  (N.B. will fail if there
   are unarchived datasets that depend on the archived datasets.)