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diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
index 9c03523bb..92d0a2287 100644
--- a/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
+++ b/doc/doc-docbook/spec.xfpt
@@ -16066,6 +16066,9 @@ use OpenSSL with a directory.
See &<<SECTtlssni>>& for discussion of when this option might be re-expanded.
+A forced expansion failure or setting to an empty string is equivalent to
+being unset.
+
.option tls_verify_hosts main "host list&!!" unset
.cindex "TLS" "client certificate verification"
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index c8155aa5c..a2e204d34 100644
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -175,6 +175,12 @@ PP/17 Update configure.default to handle IPv6 localhost better.
Patch by Alain Williams (plus minor tweaks).
Bugzilla 880.
+PP/18 OpenSSL made graceful with empty tls_verify_certificates setting.
+ This is now consistent with GnuTLS, and is now documented: the
+ previous undocumented portable approach to treating the option as
+ unset was to force an expansion failure. That still works, and
+ an empty string is now equivalent.
+
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