diff --git a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
index e7db37246950..9a5cf51beb59 100644
--- a/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
+++ b/Porting/release_managers_guide.pod
@@ -1608,6 +1608,11 @@ F<dist/Module-CoreList/Changes>.
 
 =item *
 
+Replace date '????-??-??' per actual planned YYYY-MM-DD in 
+F<dist/Module-CoreList/lib/Module/CoreList.pm>.
+
+=item *
+
 Remake perl to get your changed .pm files propagated into F<lib/> and
 then run at least the F<dist/Module-CoreList/t/*.t> tests and the
 test_porting makefile target to check that they're ok.