diff --git a/doc/userguide/upgrade.rst b/doc/userguide/upgrade.rst
index 89ca0def89..34aadc961e 100644
--- a/doc/userguide/upgrade.rst
+++ b/doc/userguide/upgrade.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ Logging changes
 Other changes
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 - NSS is no longer required. File hashing and JA3 can now be used without the NSS compile time dependency.
+- If installing Suricata without the bundled Suricata-Update, the ``default-rule-path`` has been changed from ``/etc/suricata/rules`` to ``/var/lib/suricata/rules`` to be consistent with Suricata when installed with Suricata-Update.
 
 Logging changes
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