diff --git a/RELEASE_NOTES b/RELEASE_NOTES
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+++ b/RELEASE_NOTES
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ Bug fixes:
 * fixes issue using wrong values when using the `bot: status` command (#251)
 
 Improvements:
-* the bot report when downloading the pull request's contents failed (#248)
+* make bot report when preparing the job working directory failed, for example due to merge conflict in a pull request (#248)
 * adding the pull request comment id to the metadata file that is uploaded to the
   the S3 bucket (#247, #249, #250, #253)
 * enabling configurable upload directories for tarball and metadata file (#254)
-* the bot only responds to pull request comments that contain a bot command (#257)
+* only make bot respond to pull request comments that contain a bot command (#257)
 
 
 v0.3.0 (30 January 2024)