diff --git a/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt b/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt
index 6b1666d21..c2ee3a94b 100644
--- a/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt
+++ b/Shorewall-common/releasenotes.txt
@@ -57,6 +57,10 @@ Problems corrected in 4.0.0 RC 2.
     To change VARDIR, copy the old directory to the new one before you
     restart Shorewall[-lite].
 
+    To use this feature with Shorewall-lite, all packages involved
+    (compiler, shorewall-common and shorewall-lite) must be version
+    4.0.0-RC2 or later.
+
 Other changes in Shorewall 4.0.0 RC 2.
 
 1)  The -f option is no longer the default when Shorewall is started at