diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml
index d18a4821ae6..2f059ffd0a8 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/release-15.sgml
@@ -757,7 +757,7 @@ Author: John Naylor <john.naylor@postgresql.org>
 
 <listitem>
 <para>
-Improve validation of ASCII and UTF-8 text by processing 16 bytes at a time (John Naylor)
+Improve validation of UTF-8 text (even ASCII-only) by processing 16 bytes at a time (John Naylor)
 </para>
 
 <para>