diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 8056923e5797..ab922195f6b7 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -34,7 +34,8 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 9.x IS SLOW:
 	maintain stop_cpus() to just use a normal IPI_STOP on ia32 and amd64.
 
 20090803:
-	stable/8 branch created in subversion.
+	The stable/8 branch created in subversion.  This corresponds to the
+	RELENG_8 branch in CVS.
 
 20090719:
 	Bump the shared library version numbers for all libraries that do not