diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 8160307fcda08327dccd7e66ff23f75af2e48d96..90b4bc62d8a554773e532a9022eb369a3b82be61 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ OpenLDAP 2.4.24 Engineering
 		slapd.conf(5) multi-listener support (ITS#6780)
 		slapd-config(5) GnuTLS cipher spec info (ITS#6525)
 		slapd-config(5) multi-listener support (ITS#6780)
+		slapd-meta(5) note deprecated items (ITS#6800)
 		slapo-pcache(5) note rootdn requirement (ITS#6522)
 		slapo-refint(5) rootdn requirement (ITS#6364)
 
diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5
index e9ee1f7595d9490bf02ba1e6a7c3cdb5f5573bdc..301d3584171c0908805bcfd815921b34d03429fc 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapd-meta.5
@@ -565,18 +565,6 @@ times);
 the global value can be overridden by redefinitions inside each target
 specification.
 
-.TP
-.B pseudorootdn "<substitute DN in case of rootdn bind>"
-Deprecated; use
-.B idassert\-bind
-instead.
-
-.TP
-.B pseudorootpw "<substitute password in case of rootdn bind>"
-Deprecated; use
-.B idassert\-bind
-instead.
-
 .TP
 .B rewrite* ...
 The rewrite options are described in the "REWRITING" section.
@@ -1225,6 +1213,24 @@ allows caching of LDAP search requests (queries) in a local database.
 See 
 .BR slapo\-pcache (5)
 for details.
+
+.SH DEPRECATED STATEMENTS
+The following statements have been deprecated and should no longer be used.
+
+.TP
+.B pseudorootdn "<substitute DN in case of rootdn bind>"
+Use
+.B idassert\-bind
+instead.
+
+.TP
+.B pseudorootpw "<substitute password in case of rootdn bind>"
+Use
+.B idassert\-bind
+instead.
+
+
+
 .SH FILES
 .TP
 ETCDIR/slapd.conf