diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index 4b6aa8ffb22..492817cfbb2 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@ Other contributors, listed alphabetically, are:
 * Pauli Virtanen -- autodoc improvements, autosummary extension
 * Eric N. Vander Weele -- autodoc improvements
 * Stefan van der Walt -- autosummary extension
+* Hugo van Kemenade -- support FORCE_COLOR and NO_COLOR
 * Thomas Waldmann -- apidoc module fixes
 * John Waltman -- Texinfo builder
 * Barry Warsaw -- setup command improvements
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 24e519b7d87..3790f48fff3 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ Deprecated
 Features added
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+* #10260: Enable ``FORCE_COLOR`` and ``NO_COLOR`` for terminal colouring
 * #10234: autosummary: Add "autosummary" CSS class to summary tables
 * #10125: extlinks: Improve suggestion message for a reference having title
 * #9494, #9456: html search: Add a config variable