diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index d7d8f6efb..7fb81237e 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ For plugin developers:
         in the beets repo are opted into this class where applicable. If you are maintaining a plugin
         that acts like a metadata source, i.e. you expose any of ``track_for_id``,
         ``album_for_id``, ``candidates``, ``item_candidates``, ``album_distance``, ``track_distance`` methods,
-        please update your plugin to inherit from the new baseclass, as otherwise it will
-        not be registered as a metadata source and wont be usable going forward.
+        please update your plugin to inherit from the new baseclass, as otherwise your plugin will
+        stop working with the next major release.
         
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