diff --git a/Shorewall/releasenotes.txt b/Shorewall/releasenotes.txt
index ecb42abca..a85942bbc 100644
--- a/Shorewall/releasenotes.txt
+++ b/Shorewall/releasenotes.txt
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@ VI.   PROBLEMS CORRECTED AND NEW FEATURES IN PRIOR RELEASES
     generated by the compiler.
 
 6)  The contributed macro macro.JAP generated a fatal error when used.
+    The root cause was a defect in parameter processing in nested
+    macros (if 'PARAM' was passed to an nested macro invocation, it was
+    not expanded to the current parameter value).
 
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