diff --git a/documentation/src/docs/asciidoc/release-notes/release-notes-5.6.0.adoc b/documentation/src/docs/asciidoc/release-notes/release-notes-5.6.0.adoc
index 534f4f664aa5..41e40697f6fe 100644
--- a/documentation/src/docs/asciidoc/release-notes/release-notes-5.6.0.adoc
+++ b/documentation/src/docs/asciidoc/release-notes/release-notes-5.6.0.adoc
@@ -43,6 +43,8 @@ milestone pages in the JUnit repository on GitHub.
   handles events from multiple levels of nested classes.
 * Module `org.junit.platform.launcher` now reads `java.logging` due to usage of types in
   package `java.util.logging`.
+* Method `assertIterableEquals()` in `Assertions` no longer throws a `StackOverflowError`
+  when comparing iterables with components that themselves implement `Iterable`.
 
 ==== Deprecations and Breaking Changes