diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/short-description-string-564c7e376b8e7304.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/short-description-string-564c7e376b8e7304.yaml
index d55be2808..5ddc62d18 100644
--- a/releasenotes/notes/short-description-string-564c7e376b8e7304.yaml
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/short-description-string-564c7e376b8e7304.yaml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 ---
 features:
   - |
-    Added the ability to read GraphML files that are compressed using gzip, with function :func:`~rustworkx.read_graphmlz`.
+    Added the ability to read GraphML files that are compressed using gzip, with function :func:`~rustworkx.read_graphml`.
+    The extensions `.graphmlz` and `.gz` are automatically recognised, but the gzip decompression can be forced with the "compression" optional argument.