diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index d3a6d569ebf3..604a90973d2c 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -31,6 +31,19 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 10.x IS SLOW:
 	disable the most expensive debugging functionality run
 	"ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20130802:
+	find -delete can now delete the pathnames given as arguments,
+	instead of only files found below them or if the pathname did
+	not contain any slashes. Formerly, the following error message
+	would result:
+
+	find: -delete: <path>: relative path potentially not safe
+
+	Deleting the pathnames given as arguments can be prevented
+	without error messages using -mindepth 1 or by changing
+	directory and passing "." as argument to find. This works in the
+	old as well as the new version of find.
+
 20130726:
 	Behavior of devfs rules path matching has been changed.
 	Pattern is now always matched against fully qualified devfs
diff --git a/usr.bin/find/function.c b/usr.bin/find/function.c
index 7f16a8f1892a..56d361cd575b 100644
--- a/usr.bin/find/function.c
+++ b/usr.bin/find/function.c
@@ -442,7 +442,8 @@ f_delete(PLAN *plan __unused, FTSENT *entry)
 		errx(1, "-delete: forbidden when symlinks are followed");
 
 	/* Potentially unsafe - do not accept relative paths whatsoever */
-	if (strchr(entry->fts_accpath, '/') != NULL)
+	if (entry->fts_level > FTS_ROOTLEVEL &&
+	    strchr(entry->fts_accpath, '/') != NULL)
 		errx(1, "-delete: %s: relative path potentially not safe",
 			entry->fts_accpath);