diff --git a/CHANGES.txt b/CHANGES.txt
index f727c07b75..9d0d277b9e 100644
--- a/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/CHANGES.txt
@@ -9,10 +9,12 @@ Features
* Extract metadata from HTML meta and title tags like Pelican (Issue #1923)
* Update assets in the ``base`` and ``base-jinja`` themes and clean
up code (Issue #2744)
+* Show captions in the base theme gallery (Part of issue #2777)
Bugfixes
--------
+* Add alt attribute to images in galleries in base theme (Part of issue #2777)
* Support empty lines in YAML/TOML metadata (Part of issue #2801)
* Tests run on macOS.
diff --git a/nikola/data/themes/base/templates/base.tmpl b/nikola/data/themes/base/templates/base.tmpl
index 3a23b9dcfd..910e21de69 100644
--- a/nikola/data/themes/base/templates/base.tmpl
+++ b/nikola/data/themes/base/templates/base.tmpl
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@ ${template_hooks['extra_head']()}
% endif
<%block name="extra_js">%block>
-
+
${body_end}
${template_hooks['body_end']()}