diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 2d84a411601efe3361220123b224cfd001a8b7f5..f668f17331f2753713ff1ab8f8b610a272db73a9 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ OpenLDAP 2.4.17 Engineering
 		Fixed winsock detection for windows (ITS#6102, ITS#6078)
 	Documentation
 		admin24 fixed example regex (ITS#6052)
+		ldapsearch(1) output format description (ITS#6146)
 		ldap.conf(5) improve sizelimit/timelimit limits (ITS#6127)
 		slapd.conf(5) pidfile/argsfile description fix (ITS#5975)
 		slapd-config(5) pidfile/argsfile description fix (ITS#5975)
diff --git a/doc/man/man1/ldapsearch.1 b/doc/man/man1/ldapsearch.1
index 5292ca93b045c0cc10bc1fa214f5f60c96459913..bdd33d7bdadd1cf2eaced4090542cba84a415a22 100644
--- a/doc/man/man1/ldapsearch.1
+++ b/doc/man/man1/ldapsearch.1
@@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ finds one or more entries, the attributes specified by
 returned.  If + is listed, all operational attributes are returned.
 If no \fIattrs\fP are listed, all user attributes are returned.  If only
 1.1 is listed, no attributes will be returned.
+.LP
+The search results are displayed using an extended version of LDIF.
+Option \fI\-L\fP controls the format of the output.
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
 .B \-n