diff --git a/manpages/shorewall-interfaces.xml b/manpages/shorewall-interfaces.xml
index 4228339bd..5cdca4763 100644
--- a/manpages/shorewall-interfaces.xml
+++ b/manpages/shorewall-interfaces.xml
@@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ loc eth2 -
url="shorewall-nesting.html">shorewall-nesting(5) for a
discussion of this problem.
+ Beginning with Shorewall 4.2.3, Shorewall-perl allows '+' as
+ an interface name.
+
There is no need to define the loopback interface (lo) in this
file.