doc/devel/release.html | 8 ++++++++

diff --git a/doc/devel/release.html b/doc/devel/release.html
index a978ddccd50140a9f8c31b73cce114896de1c44f..a9ab9cc2d95e42df4cf710fea2c4290c23ce9be0 100644
--- a/doc/devel/release.html
+++ b/doc/devel/release.html
@@ -48,6 +48,14 @@ <a href="https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.12.2">Go
 1.12.2 milestone</a> on our issue tracker for details.
 </p>
 
+<p>
+go1.12.3 (released 2019/04/08) fixes an issue where using the prebuilt binary
+releases on older versions of GNU/Linux
+<a href="https://golang/go/issues/31293">led to failures</a>
+when linking programs that used cgo.
+Only Linux users who hit this issue need to update.
+</p>
+
 <h2 id="go1.11">go1.11 (released 2018/08/24)</h2>
 
 <p>