diff --git a/man7/capabilities.7 b/man7/capabilities.7
index 718bf848e..2f5570aa5 100644
--- a/man7/capabilities.7
+++ b/man7/capabilities.7
@@ -355,7 +355,9 @@ employ
 flags that create new namespaces with
 .BR clone (2)
 and
-.BR unshare (2);
+.BR unshare (2)
+(but, since Linux 3.8,
+creating user namespaces does not require any capability);
 .IP *
 call
 .BR perf_event_open (2);