diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 8bc156e75fee2..ee76074fdf265 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Standard library changes
   * `Symmetric` and `Hermitian` matrices now preserve the wrapper when scaled with a number ([#29469]).
   * New `edit(m::Module)` method which opens the main source file for module `m` ([#29636]).
   * `Base.@kwdef` can now be used for parametric structs, and for structs with supertypes ([#29316]).
+  * `merge(::NamedTuple, ::NamedTuple...)` can now be used with more than 2 `NamedTuple`s ([#29259]).
 
 Compiler/Runtime improvements
 -----------------------------
diff --git a/base/namedtuple.jl b/base/namedtuple.jl
index 8b0d777feab81..66f5a18774b27 100644
--- a/base/namedtuple.jl
+++ b/base/namedtuple.jl
@@ -223,6 +223,10 @@ contains that field. Fields present in only the rightmost named tuple of a pair
 A fallback is implemented for when only a single named tuple is supplied,
 with signature `merge(a::NamedTuple)`.
 
+!!! compat "Julia 1.1"
+    Merging 3 or more `NamedTuple` requires at least Julia 1.1.
+
+# Examples
 ```jldoctest
 julia> merge((a=1, b=2, c=3), (b=4, d=5))
 (a = 1, b = 4, c = 3, d = 5)