diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index 7328ea67f1d3f89c66ca825290b38aabd6306b9e..62efff631417f87da8c250f3575ff4cb53922508 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ NOTE: If you are not using Munge, but are using the "service" scripts to
       start Slurm daemons, then you will need to remove this check from the
       etc/slurm*service scripts.
 
+NOTE: If you are upgrading with any jobs started 14.03 or earlier
+      (i.e. quick upgrade from 14.03 -> 15.08 -> 17.02) you will need
+      to wait until after those jobs are gone before you upgrade to 17.02.
+
 HIGHLIGHTS
 ==========
  -- Added infrastructure for managing workload across a federation of clusters.