diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
index 93759b9debd7..d3feb9e533d3 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.xml
@@ -544,6 +544,10 @@
 	canonicalization before locating the host in
 	<filename>known_hosts</filename>.</para>
 
+      <para revision="285972">The &man.libarchive.3; library has been
+	updated to properly skip a sparse file entry in a &man.tar.1;
+	file, which would previously produce errors.</para>
+
       <para revision="r287168">The &man.acpi.4; subsystem has been
 	updated to version 20150818.</para>
     </sect2>