Fix bug introduced with code smell fix

The change to the message constructor to fix a "code smell" identified
by sonar introduced the use of an uninitialised variable.  This change
fixes this.

Issue-ID: RIC-629

Signed-off-by: E. Scott Daniels <daniels@research.att.com>
Change-Id: I2ecf7a558b1b42bc0d225db7b60dbc61016f6f2b
diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index bde4d75..9b3e70e 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@
 # squished to one.
 
 release = Cherry
+2020 21 August; version 2.3.1
+	Fix bug in message introduced with "code smell" fix. (RIC-629)
+
 2020 20 August; version 2.3.0
 	Address sonar flagged "bugs" in the config class (RIC-629).