diff --git a/runtime/doc/news.txt b/runtime/doc/news.txt
index a208f6e281..cd38af77c4 100644
--- a/runtime/doc/news.txt
+++ b/runtime/doc/news.txt
@@ -78,6 +78,9 @@ EDITOR
   formatting. To get the old behavior you can use `<C-R>=@x`.
 • Buffer name URI scheme parsing more closely follows RFC3986, so for example
   "svn+ssh:", "ed2k:", and "iris.xpc:" are recognized as URI schemes.
+• On Windows, Nvim no longer searches the current directory for executables
+  for running external commands; use a relative or absolute path if you want
+  the previous behavior |NoDefaultCurrentDirectoryInExePath|.
 
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