diff --git a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md
index 68f7d1a9d..2069e4578 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md
+++ b/doc/manual/src/release-notes/rl-next.md
@@ -5,3 +5,8 @@
   arguments will be ignored and the resulting derivation will have
   `__impure` set to `true`, making it an impure derivation.
 
+* If `builtins.readFile` is called on a file with context, then only the parts
+  of that context that appear in the content of the file are retained.
+  This avoids a lot of spurious errors where some benign strings end-up having
+  a context just because they are read from a store path
+  ([#7260](https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/7260)).