diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ Notable changes to QMCPACK are documented in this file.
   appears to work as expected. As a workaround, the CUDA toolkit 11.2 can be
   used. The actual NVIDIA drivers can be more recent.
 
-* Enabled HIP as language in CMake. When using HIP targeting AMD GPUs, replace
-  HIP_ARCH with CMAKE_HIP_ARCHITECTURES if HIP_ARCH was used to specify the GPU
+* Enabled HIP as language in CMake (requires >= 3.21). When using HIP targeting AMD GPUs,
+  replace HIP_ARCH with CMAKE_HIP_ARCHITECTURES if HIP_ARCH was used to specify the GPU
   architectures.
 
 ##  [3.15.0] - 2022-09-29