diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@
 
 See [RELEASE](./RELEASE.md) for workflow instructions.
 
+## v1.1.7
+
+### Improvements
+
+- [#5038](https://github.com/spacemeshos/go-spacemesh/pull/5038) add index for faster query to refballot
+
+there was a regression in proposal builder that started to use codepath that was used in different domain, which was executed once per runtime. now this is executed on every proposal creation and might be too slow.
+
+
 ## v1.1.6
 
 ### Upgrade information
diff --git a/sql/migrations/0003_next.sql b/sql/migrations/0003_activesets.sql
similarity index 100%
rename from sql/migrations/0003_next.sql
rename to sql/migrations/0003_activesets.sql
diff --git a/sql/migrations/0004_ballots_index.sql b/sql/migrations/0004_ballots_index.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ec8388a41f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sql/migrations/0004_ballots_index.sql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+CREATE INDEX ballots_by_atx_by_layer ON ballots (atx, layer asc);