diff --git a/RELNOTES b/RELNOTES
index 478864776e08..2ed1e14f67a1 100644
--- a/RELNOTES
+++ b/RELNOTES
@@ -17,3 +17,9 @@ d575e81fbcfa
 76681661be28
 	Remove support for asymmetric cryptographic operations from
 	the kernel open cryptographic framework (OCF).
+
+a145cf3f73c7
+	The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
+	supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
+	for NFSv4 mounts.
+	The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index cf8b5fa287a4..dbedcd058585 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -27,6 +27,12 @@ NOTE TO PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT FreeBSD 14.x IS SLOW:
 	world, or to merely disable the most expensive debugging functionality
 	at runtime, run "ln -s 'abort:false,junk:false' /etc/malloc.conf".)
 
+20210624:
+	The NFSv4 client now uses the highest minor version of NFSv4
+	supported by the NFSv4 server by default instead of minor version 0,
+	for NFSv4 mounts.
+	The "minorversion" mount option may be used to override this default.
+
 20210618:
 	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1400024 for LinuxKPI changes.
 	Most notably netdev.h can change now as the (last) dependencies