diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md
index 680d3ffb55be6..e595f7fb19b05 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-2505.section.md
@@ -571,6 +571,11 @@
 
   Note that all provided plugins must have versions/tags (string after `@`), even if upstream repo does not tag each release. For untagged plugins, you can either create an empty Go project and run `go get <plugin>` and see changes in `go.mod` to get the pseudo-version number, or provide a commit hash in place of version/tag for the first run, and update the plugin string based on the error output.
 
+- `buildGoModule` now supports a self-referencing `finalAttrs:` parameter
+  containing the final arguments including overrides.
+  This allows packaging configuration to be overridden in a consistent manner by
+  providing an alternative to `rec {}` syntax.
+
 - KDE Partition Manager `partitionmanager`'s support for ReiserFS is removed.
   ReiserFS has not been actively maintained for many years. It has been marked as obsolete since Linux 6.6, and
   [is removed](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c01f664e4ca210823b7594b50669bbd9b0a3c3b0)