diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index ddb7c3ace82d89f816d22a61b8d04bc58a686988..ebab0b44fa1f9e8926183c43a480eec1c8ecce36 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ OpenLDAP 2.4.12 Engineering
 	Fixed slapo-rwm callback cleanup (ITS#5601,ITS#5687)
 	Fixed slapo-rwm attr mapping and merging (ITS#5624)
 	Fixed slapo-rwm objectClass filtering (ITS#5647)
+	Fixed slapo-translucent back-config support (ITS#5689)
 	Fixed slapo-translucent filter usage on merged entries (ITS#5679)
 	Fixed slapo-unique filter validation (ITS#5581)
 	Fixed slapo-unique suffix testing (ITS#5641)
diff --git a/servers/slapd/overlays/translucent.c b/servers/slapd/overlays/translucent.c
index 555284ec8ba7f1e57751430b7b37698838dc9143..73573bca792d31021f5b753dc14b553892a44e42 100644
--- a/servers/slapd/overlays/translucent.c
+++ b/servers/slapd/overlays/translucent.c
@@ -67,13 +67,13 @@ static ConfigTable translucentcfg[] = {
 	  "DESC 'Disable automatic glue records for ADD and MODRDN' "
 	  "SYNTAX OMsBoolean SINGLE-VALUE )", NULL, NULL },
 	{ "translucent_local", "attr[,attr...]", 1, 2, 0,
-	  ARG_STRING|ARG_MAGIC|TRANS_LOCAL,
+	  ARG_MAGIC|TRANS_LOCAL,
 	  translucent_cf_gen,
 	  "( OLcfgOvAt:14.3 NAME 'olcTranslucentLocal' "
 	  "DESC 'Attributes to use in local search filter' "
 	  "SYNTAX OMsDirectoryString )", NULL, NULL },
 	{ "translucent_remote", "attr[,attr...]", 1, 2, 0,
-	  ARG_STRING|ARG_MAGIC|TRANS_REMOTE,
+	  ARG_MAGIC|TRANS_REMOTE,
 	  translucent_cf_gen,
 	  "( OLcfgOvAt:14.4 NAME 'olcTranslucentRemote' "
 	  "DESC 'Attributes to use in remote search filter' "