diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
index 290cd5c..30b3f24 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.1.rst
@@ -541,3 +541,8 @@
     Got:
         2.718281828459045
     **********************************************************************
+
+* The automatic name remapping in the pickle module for protocol 2 or lower can
+  make Python 3.1 pickles unreadable in Python 3.0.  One solution is to use
+  protocol 3.  Another solution is to set the *fix_imports* option to **False**.
+  See the discussion above for more details.