diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index 524e194260f..31deec67b6b 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -185,6 +185,9 @@ Bug Fixes
 * SOLR-17637: LBHttp2SolrClient can fail to complete async requests in certain error scenarios.
   This can cause the HttpShardHandler to indefinitely wait on a completed response that will never come. (Houston Putman)
 
+* SOLR-17630: Added a node-wide CloudSolrClient to ZkController, and accessible via SolrCloudManager too.
+  Uses Jetty HttpClient.  Deprecated CloudSolrClient.getSolrClientCache.  Redirected some callers.  (David Smiley)
+
 Dependency Upgrades
 ---------------------
 * SOLR-17471: Upgrade Lucene to 9.12.1. (Pierre Salagnac, Christine Poerschke)
diff --git a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/CoreContainer.java b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/CoreContainer.java
index 1fbec08dac6..ac8318bbd53 100644
--- a/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/CoreContainer.java
+++ b/solr/core/src/java/org/apache/solr/core/CoreContainer.java
@@ -749,8 +749,11 @@ public FileStore getFileStore() {
    * @see #getDefaultHttpSolrClient()
    * @see ZkController#getSolrClient()
    * @see Http2SolrClient#requestWithBaseUrl(String, String, SolrRequest)
+   * @deprecated
    */
+  @Deprecated
   public SolrClientCache getSolrClientCache() {
+    // TODO put in the objectCache instead
     return solrClientCache;
   }