diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 166dcd4cf..c5d7f5861 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ Other changes:
    used to control the amount of time to wait for the read to complete.
    Bugzilla Report 63193
 
+ * ftp task manual has been updated to mention that the remote listing of
+   files honours the followsymlinks attribute.
+   Bugzilla Report 63226
+
 
 Changes from Ant 1.10.4 TO Ant 1.10.5
 =====================================
diff --git a/manual/Tasks/ftp.html b/manual/Tasks/ftp.html
index e587d4863..07e494224 100644
--- a/manual/Tasks/ftp.html
+++ b/manual/Tasks/ftp.html
@@ -387,7 +387,7 @@ connection.</p>
 nested <a href="../Types/fileset.html"><code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code></a> elements to specify the
 files to be retrieved, or deleted, or listed, or whose mode you want to change.</p>
 <p>The attribute <var>followsymlinks</var> of <code>fileset</code> is supported on local
-(<q>put</q>) as well as remote (<q>get</q>, <q>chmod</q>, <q>delete</q>) filesets.  <em>Before Ant
+(<q>put</q>) as well as remote (<q>get</q>, <q>chmod</q>, <q>delete</q>, <q>list</q>) filesets.  <em>Before Ant
 1.6 there was no support of symbolic links in remote filesets.  In order to exclude symbolic links
 (preserve the behavior of Ant 1.5.x and older), you need to explicitly set <var>followsymlinks</var>
 to <q>false</q>.</em>  On remote filesets hidden files are not checked for being symbolic links.