diff --git a/docs/releases/1.22-NOTES.md b/docs/releases/1.22-NOTES.md
index 34c76da732..38c841f071 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.22-NOTES.md
+++ b/docs/releases/1.22-NOTES.md
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ This is a document to gather the release notes prior to the release.
 
 * The legacy location for downloads `s3://https://kubeupv2.s3.amazonaws.com/kops/` has been deprecated and will not be used for new releases. The new canonical downloads location is `https://artifacts.k8s.io/binaries/kops/`.
 
-# Required Actions
+# Required actions
 
 # Deprecations
 
@@ -28,4 +28,8 @@ This is a document to gather the release notes prior to the release.
 
 * Due to lack of maintainers, the Aliyun/Alibaba Cloud support has been deprecated. The current implementation will be left as-is until the implementation needs updates or otherwise becomes incompatible. At that point, it will be removed. We very much welcome anyone willing to contribute to this cloud provider.
 
+# Other changes of note
+
+* It is no longer necessary to set `AWS_SDK_LOAD_CONFIG=1` in the environment when using AWS assumed roles with the `kops` CLI.
+
 # Full change list since 1.21.0 release