diff --git a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
index b36765261..5d246c861 100644
--- a/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
+++ b/chapter01/whatsnew.xml
@@ -14,10 +14,10 @@
   <para>In the 11.3 release, <parameter>--enable-default-pie</parameter>
   and <parameter>--enable-default-ssp</parameter> are enabled for GCC.
   These techniques can mitigate some malicious attacks, but they do not provide
-  perfect security.  If you are reading LFS and a programming textbook,
+  perfect security.  Note that some textbooks assume these options are
+  disabled, so that if you run examples from such a textbook on an LFS system,
   you may need to disable PIE and SSP with the GCC options
-  <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>,
-  because some textbooks assume these options are disabled by default.</para>
+  <parameter>-fno-pie -no-pie -fno-stack-protection</parameter>.</para>
 
   <para>Here is a list of the packages updated since the previous
   release of LFS.</para>