diff --git a/installer/ReleaseNotes.md b/installer/ReleaseNotes.md
index 97870a241f..41f2fb271c 100644
--- a/installer/ReleaseNotes.md
+++ b/installer/ReleaseNotes.md
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ This package contains software from a number of other projects including Bash, z
 * `call start-ssh-agent` [no longer spits out bogus lines](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/314).
 * It is now possible [even behind NTLM-authenticated proxies](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/309) to install [Git for Windows' SDK](https://git-for-windows.github.io/#download-sdk).
 * We [can handle the situation now](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/318) when the first `$PATH` elements point outside of Git for Windows' `bin/` directories and contain `.dll` files that interfere with our own (e.g. PostgreSQL's `libintl-8.dll`).
+* The patch package, which was included in msysgit but [not in Git for Windows](https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/221) is now included.
 
 ##Changes since Git-2.4.6 (July 18th 2015)
 
diff --git a/make-file-list.sh b/make-file-list.sh
index 8a1c9ccb8d..809dcda691 100755
--- a/make-file-list.sh
+++ b/make-file-list.sh
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ die "Could not install required packages"
 
 pacman_list mingw-w64-$ARCH-git mingw-w64-$ARCH-git-doc-html \
 	git-extra ncurses mintty vim openssh winpty \
-	sed awk less grep gnupg tar findutils coreutils diffutils \
+	sed awk less grep gnupg tar findutils coreutils diffutils patch \
 	dos2unix which subversion mingw-w64-$ARCH-tk \
 	mingw-w64-$ARCH-connect "$@" |
 grep -v -e '\.[acho]$' -e '\.l[ao]$' -e '/aclocal/' \