diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 7b249b7fc..f9d10e831 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@
 ### Performance Improvements
 * Reduce thread number for multiple DB instances by re-using one global thread for statistics dumping and persisting.
 
+### Public API Change
+* Expose kTypeDeleteWithTimestamp in EntryType and update GetEntryType() accordingly.
+
 ## 6.12 (2020-07-28)
 ### Public API Change
 * Encryption file classes now exposed for inheritance in env_encryption.h
diff --git a/db/dbformat.cc b/db/dbformat.cc
index 85411ed3e..40e9917ec 100644
--- a/db/dbformat.cc
+++ b/db/dbformat.cc
@@ -32,6 +32,8 @@ EntryType GetEntryType(ValueType value_type) {
       return kEntryPut;
     case kTypeDeletion:
       return kEntryDelete;
+    case kTypeDeletionWithTimestamp:
+      return kEntryDeleteWithTimestamp;
     case kTypeSingleDeletion:
       return kEntrySingleDelete;
     case kTypeMerge:
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/types.h b/include/rocksdb/types.h
index 4d004b69d..a4ab9c07a 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/types.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/types.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ typedef uint64_t SequenceNumber;
 const SequenceNumber kMinUnCommittedSeq = 1;  // 0 is always committed
 
 // User-oriented representation of internal key types.
+// Ordering of this enum entries should not change.
 enum EntryType {
   kEntryPut,
   kEntryDelete,
@@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ enum EntryType {
   kEntryMerge,
   kEntryRangeDeletion,
   kEntryBlobIndex,
+  kEntryDeleteWithTimestamp,
   kEntryOther,
 };