diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml
index 560b3198517..e04d5842d6d 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1909.xml
@@ -57,6 +57,23 @@
and simultaneously or to downgrade from Xfce 4.14 after upgrading.
+
+
+ The GNOME 3 desktop manager module sports an interface to enable/disable core services, applications, and optional GNOME packages
+ like games.
+
+ This can be achieved with the following options which the desktop manager default enables, excluding games.
+ services.gnome3.core-os-services.enable
+ services.gnome3.core-shell.enable
+ services.gnome3.core-utilities.enable
+ services.gnome3.games.enable
+
+ With these options we hope to give users finer grained control over their systems. Prior to this change you'd either have to manually
+ disable options or use which only excluded the optional applications.
+ is now unguarded, it can exclude any package installed with
+ in the GNOME 3 module.
+
+