diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
index 5f572b025c93..52c1055fac61 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
@@ -623,6 +623,13 @@
The kern.osrelease
and kern.osreldate are now configurable
&man.jail.8; parameters.
+
+ The
+ &man.devfs.5; device filesystem has been changed to disable
+ updating timestamps for read/write operations. A new
+ &man.sysctl.8;, vfs.devfs.dotimes has been
+ added, which when set to a non-zero value, enables updating
+ timestamps for these operations.