diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index f5ace94783a8c641933b32809b1761231bfa942a..a84a8543fef81c48bcf7b10097c6dc53bf403c26 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ of Slurm will result in loss of state information.
 If using SPANK plugins that use the Slurm APIs, they should be recompiled when
 upgrading Slurm to a new major release.
 
+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.
 
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