diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 57ada46c81..6681568f78 100644
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 This file lists interface changes that might affect users in 1.5.0 and
-also some known problems in LyX 1.5.0rc2 that did not occur in
+also some known problems in LyX 1.5.0 that did not occur in
 1.4.4. Note that fixes are available for many of these, but they have
 not yet been applied because of incomplete testing.
 
@@ -10,9 +10,32 @@ Interface changes
 Some of the LyX functions have changed names :
 
 
-Known issues with version 1.5.0rc2
+Known issues with version 1.5.0
 ------------------------------------
 
+- User layout files must be converted to UTF-8
+
+In previous version, layout styles were allowed to use non-ASCII names
+using the local encodings. LyX-1.5 now assumes that all layout files are
+UTF-8 encoded. This means that non-ASCII style names are still allowed
+but they nust be valid UTF-8 strings. One way of doing the conversion
+is to use iconv. Using bash, the script below should work:
+
+cd /path/to/layouts
+for l in *
+do
+  cp $l tmp.txt
+  iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 tmp.txt -o $l
+done
+rm tmp.txt
+
+- Cursor restoration problems with Multiple-View
+
+When using multiple Windows to edit different parts of the
+same document, the cursor position is sometimes not correctly restored
+when you switch from one view to the other.
+
+
 Note: There may later be an updated list of known issues online at
 	http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/ReleaseNotes