diff --git a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
index 2021fc61a873060fa3682b4463584951c8d0a2ca..15bf82bc68181902dc18f5097428d37d8100c3d2 100644
--- a/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
+++ b/docs/users_guide/7.8.1-notes.xml
@@ -344,27 +344,6 @@
                </para>
            </listitem>
 
-            <listitem>
-                <para>
-                     By default, the maximum stack size in the runtime
-                     system is now infinite. This is controlled by the
-                     <literal>+RTS -K</literal> flag, which was
-                     previously defaulted to 8MB. In general, this
-                     will allow more programs to run as they will no
-                     longer stack overflow as quickly, although they
-                     may use much more memory.
-               </para>
-
-                <para>
-                     Note that you will still eventually encounter a
-                     stack overflow - when the heap is completely
-                     exhausted, as stacks are serviced from the
-                     storage manager. This will cause a runtime abort
-                     after invoking
-                     <literal>StackOverflowHook</literal>.
-               </para>
-           </listitem>
-
             <listitem>
                 <para>
                     The performance of <literal>StablePtr</literal>s and