diff --git a/release-notes/index.dita b/release-notes/index.dita
index e6c6d09c..02ab6940 100644
--- a/release-notes/index.dita
+++ b/release-notes/index.dita
@@ -108,8 +108,10 @@
             <xref href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/4264" format="html" scope="external">#4264</xref>,
             <xref href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/4280" format="html" scope="external">#4280</xref>
           </li>
-          <li id="4269">Footnote in <xmlelement>title</xmlelement>, footnote text appears in <xmlelement
-            >xref</xmlelement>
+          <li id="4269">In earlier versions, cross-references or other links to titles that contained footnotes included
+            the footnote text. For a link to a target element that has no explicit link text, DITA-OT computes default
+            link text from the target element. Link text computation now ignores any <xmlelement>fn</xmlelement>
+            elements it encounters, so the link shows only the text from the <xmlelement>title</xmlelement> element.
             <xref href="https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/4269" format="html" scope="external">#4269</xref>
           </li>
           <li id="4275">Different topicmeta/navtitle should keep their value even if the target file is the same