diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index dc1187379c9bf58d7d62dd538b0666222f1dc8b8..9d0ff701ae6c8e7afaaaaf761a92b575c80e23e2 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ OpenLDAP 2.4.13 Engineering
 		admin24 added olcLimits to example (ITS#5746)
 		admin24 consolidated on whitespace (ITS#5759)
 		slapo-dds(5) manageDIT to relax (ITS#5780)
+		slapo-syncprov(5) sessionlog clarification (ITS#5806)
 
 OpenLDAP 2.4.12 Release (2008/10/12)
 	Fixed libldap ldap_utf8_strchar arguments (ITS#5720)
diff --git a/doc/man/man5/slapo-syncprov.5 b/doc/man/man5/slapo-syncprov.5
index 47c3c362006d00da633b52d1e3080ba00f8da747..5d559be0ebfc7de77acd8c98d412d11976c6f535 100644
--- a/doc/man/man5/slapo-syncprov.5
+++ b/doc/man/man5/slapo-syncprov.5
@@ -41,8 +41,8 @@ time have passed
 since the last checkpoint. Checkpointing is disabled by default.
 .TP
 .B syncprov-sessionlog <ops>
-Specify a session log for recording information about write operations made
-on the database.  The
+Configures an in-memory session log for recording information about write
+operations made on the database.  The
 .B <ops>
 specifies the number of operations that are recorded in the log. All write
 operations (except Adds) are recorded in the log.