diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4c28361081..ff55bbcaa3 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -166,7 +166,9 @@ CHANGES WITH 258 in spe:
           directory is encouraged to ship their own tmpfiles.d configuration to
           set it up according to their needs. In general, services should store
           their lock files in RuntimeDirectory=/$RUNTIME_DIRECTORY, and software
-          directly executed by users should use $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR.
+          directly executed by users should use $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR. Software
+          working with specific devices (e.g. serial port devices) should flock
+          the device directly rather than creating a separate lock file.
 
         * Support for systemd-repart's FactoryReset EFI variable has been
           deprecated and support for it will be removed in v260. Use the newer,