diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 825a8a36e..ce5a68c48 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ Fixes:
   written to files. Thanks to :user:`jdetrey`. :bug:`1303` :bug:`1589`
 * :doc:`/plugins/replaygain`: Avoid a crash when the PyAudioTools backend
   encounters an error. :bug:`1592`
-* The check whether the file system is case sensitive or not could lead to
-  wrong results. It is much more robust now.
+* The case sensitivity of path queries is more useful now: rather than just
+  guessing based on the platform, we now check the case sensitivity of your
+  particular filesystem. :bug:`1586`
 * Case-insensitive path queries might have returned nothing because of a
   wrong SQL query.
 * Fix a crash when a query contains a "+" or "-" alone in a component.
diff --git a/docs/reference/query.rst b/docs/reference/query.rst
index e3ce68004..452681c35 100644
--- a/docs/reference/query.rst
+++ b/docs/reference/query.rst
@@ -202,8 +202,8 @@ Note that this only matches items that are *already in your library*, so a path
 query won't necessarily find *all* the audio files in a directory---just the
 ones you've already added to your beets library.
 
-Path queries are case-sensitive if the file system the library is located on
-is case-sensitive, case-insensitive otherwise.
+Path queries are case sensitive if the queried path is on a case-sensitive
+filesystem.
 
 .. _query-sort: