diff --git a/docs/releases/2.0.txt b/docs/releases/2.0.txt
index 18d170aa1b5..904597a0332 100644
--- a/docs/releases/2.0.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/2.0.txt
@@ -349,6 +349,12 @@ of binary fields or HTTP streams, for example). You might have to update your
 code to limit bytestring usage to a minimum, as Django no longer accepts
 bytestrings in certain code paths.
 
+For example, ``reverse()`` now uses ``str()`` instead of ``force_text()`` to
+coerce the ``args`` and ``kwargs`` it receives, prior to their placement in
+the URL. For bytestrings, this creates a string with an undesired ``b`` prefix
+as well as additional quotes (``str(b'foo')`` is ``"b'foo'"``). To adapt, call
+``decode()`` on the bytestring before passing it to ``reverse()``.
+
 Database backend API
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