diff --git a/NEWS.txt b/NEWS.txt
index d5e67b6eb8..b9675836c8 100644
--- a/NEWS.txt
+++ b/NEWS.txt
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ New features
      repaired are marked with a timestamp and not included in the next
      repair session. Use nodetool repair -par -inc to use this feature.
      A tool to manually mark/unmark sstables as repaired is available in
-     tools/bin/sstablerepairedset.
+     tools/bin/sstablerepairedset. This is particularly important when
+     using LCS, or any data not repaired in your first incremental repair
+     will be put back in L0.
    - Bootstrapping now ensures that range movements are consistent,
      meaning the data for the new node is taken from the node that is no 
      longer a responsible for that range of keys.