diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 30950a40648c68cfe6b42fd4e5bfb61cb925f5cf..46ae875c494e2b6c6b921e287716e800310e170c 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,8 +12,10 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Added Python module to process hostslists as used by SLURM. See
     contribs/python/hostlist. Supplied by Kent Engstrom, National
     Supercomputer Centre, Sweden.
- -- Report abormal task termination message (restored functionality present
+ -- Report task termination due to signal (restored functionality present
     in slurm v1.2).
+ -- Remove sbatch test for script size being no larger than 64k bytes.
+    The current limit is 4GB.
  
 * Changes in SLURM 1.3.6
 ========================
diff --git a/src/sbatch/sbatch.c b/src/sbatch/sbatch.c
index 92d42e91df75dd86c6ee2613d9dfcbbf9f66b434..8da2c7944431223156fe90194578f4d479c90ba9 100644
--- a/src/sbatch/sbatch.c
+++ b/src/sbatch/sbatch.c
@@ -421,9 +421,6 @@ static void *get_script_buffer(const char *filename, int *size)
 	if (script_size == 0) {
 		error("Batch script is empty!");
 		goto fail;
-	} else if (script_size >= 0xffff) {
-		error("Job script exceeds size supported by slurm");
-		goto fail;
 	} else if (xstring_is_whitespace(buf)) {
 		error("Batch script contains only whitespace!");
 		goto fail;