diff --git a/doc/announce/release-2.2.1.txt b/doc/announce/release-2.2.1.txt
index 37b9bbeb0..f9764634c 100644
--- a/doc/announce/release-2.2.1.txt
+++ b/doc/announce/release-2.2.1.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,13 @@
 pytest-2.2.1: bug fixes, perfect teardowns
 ===========================================================================
 
+
 pytest-2.2.1 is a minor backward-compatible release of the the py.test
 testing tool.   It contains bug fixes and little improvements, including
-documentation fixes.  For general information see here:
+documentation fixes.  If you are using the distributed testing
+pluginmake sure to upgrade it to pytest-xdist-1.8.
+
+For general information see here:
 
      http://pytest.org/