diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index d136ee6aef5..e1275fbb5ee 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2019-08-01  Alan Hayward  <alan.hayward@arm.com>
+
+	* NEWS: Require GNU make 3.82.
+
 2019-07-16  Tom Tromey  <tom@tromey.com>
 
 	* tui/tui-wingeneral.h (tui_copy_win, tui_box_win): Don't
diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index ac44399304c..3c3351e2c47 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -280,6 +280,11 @@ maint show test-options-completion-result
   GDB) in the output directory for each test script.  Multiple invocations
   are appended with .1, .2, .3 etc.
 
+* Building GDB and GDBserver now requires GNU make >= 3.82.
+
+  Using another implementation of the make program or an earlier version of
+  GNU make to build GDB or GDBserver is not supported.
+
 *** Changes in GDB 8.3
 
 * GDB and GDBserver now support access to additional registers on