diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml
index 4a134e42a0f9..2692415174c5 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/from_md/release-notes/rl-2111.section.xml
@@ -50,6 +50,29 @@
           guide</link> is available.
         </para>
       </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Improvements have been made to the Hadoop module and package:
+        </para>
+        <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              HDFS and YARN now support production-ready highly
+              available deployments with automatic failover.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              Hadoop now defaults to Hadoop 3, updated from 2.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              JournalNode, ZKFS and HTTPFS services have been added.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </listitem>
       <listitem>
         <para>
           Activation scripts can now opt int to be run when running
diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md
index 1e815616f201..04566980c30d 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2111.section.md
@@ -18,6 +18,11 @@ In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the followin
 
 - spark now defaults to spark 3, updated from 2. A [migration guide](https://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/core-migration-guide.html#upgrading-from-core-24-to-30) is available.
 
+- Improvements have been made to the Hadoop module and package:
+  - HDFS and YARN now support production-ready highly available deployments with automatic failover.
+  - Hadoop now defaults to Hadoop 3, updated from 2.
+  - JournalNode, ZKFS and HTTPFS services have been added.
+
 - Activation scripts can now opt int to be run when running `nixos-rebuild dry-activate` and detect the dry activation by reading `$NIXOS_ACTION`.
   This allows activation scripts to output what they would change if the activation was really run.
   The users/modules activation script supports this and outputs some of is actions.