diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 2f432124233a..6184d2df8a8d 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 14.x IS SLOW:
 	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
 	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20211004:
+	Ncurses distribution has been split between libtinfow and libncurses
+	with libncurses.so becoming a linker (ld) script to seamlessly link
+	to libtinfow as needed. Bump _FreeBSD_version to 1400035 to reflect
+	this change.
+
 20210923:
 	As of commit 8160a0f62be6, the dummynet module no longer depends on the
 	ipfw module. Dummynet can now be used by pf as well as ipfw. As such
diff --git a/sys/sys/param.h b/sys/sys/param.h
index 234111e5d53c..899ae1793b28 100644
--- a/sys/sys/param.h
+++ b/sys/sys/param.h
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
  * cannot include sys/param.h and should only be updated here.
  */
 #undef __FreeBSD_version
-#define __FreeBSD_version 1400034
+#define __FreeBSD_version 1400035
 
 /*
  * __FreeBSD_kernel__ indicates that this system uses the kernel of FreeBSD,