diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 810ebf3f9a8c..ab50b8da73d7 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ from older versions of FreeBSD, try WITHOUT_CLANG and WITH_GCC to bootstrap to
 the tip of head, and then rebuild without this option. The bootstrap process
 from older version of current across the gcc/clang cutover is a bit fragile.
 
+20190413:
+	Now Clang 8 has been merged (see the 20190412 entry below), the ifunc
+	functionality needed for the RETPOLINE option should work properly
+	again.  The RETPOLINE option has been removed from BROKEN_OPTIONS.
+
 20190412:
 	Clang, llvm, lld, lldb, compiler-rt and libc++ have been upgraded to
 	8.0.0.  Please see the 20141231 entry below for information about
diff --git a/share/mk/src.opts.mk b/share/mk/src.opts.mk
index 13e0a2d0a76c..f05b46b6d893 100644
--- a/share/mk/src.opts.mk
+++ b/share/mk/src.opts.mk
@@ -369,9 +369,6 @@ BROKEN_OPTIONS+=LOADER_UBOOT
 BROKEN_OPTIONS+=LOADER_GELI LOADER_LUA
 .endif
 
-# clang 7.0
-BROKEN_OPTIONS+=RETPOLINE
-
 .if ${__T:Mmips64*}
 # profiling won't work on MIPS64 because there is only assembly for o32
 BROKEN_OPTIONS+=PROFILE