diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
index 113cc5e97d..d5bd6d75cf 100644
--- a/RELEASE_NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -59,3 +59,4 @@
   • libmodplug is now detected through pkg-config
   • HTML documentation generation through texi2html is deprecated in
     favor of makeinfo/texi2any
+  • ffplay now exits by default at the end of playback