diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 1709dafce4..18aba525f4 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ New Modules:
 
 Some other notable changes:
 
+* support for symbolic representations (ie. u+rw) for file permission modes (file/copy/template modules etc.).
 * docker: Added support for specifying the net type of the container.
 * docker: support for specifying read-only volumes.
 * docker: support for specifying the API version to use for the remote connection.
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ Some other notable changes:
 * ec2: can set optimized flag
 * various parser improvements
 * produce a friendly error message if the SSH key is too permissive
-* ec2_ami_searcH: support for SSD and IOPS provisioned EBS images
+* ec2_ami_search: support for SSD and IOPS provisioned EBS images
 
 And various other bug fixes and improvements ...
 
diff --git a/lib/ansible/utils/module_docs_fragments/files.py b/lib/ansible/utils/module_docs_fragments/files.py
index c73c53da47..d54d0ece5a 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/utils/module_docs_fragments/files.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/utils/module_docs_fragments/files.py
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ options:
     default: null
     choices: []
     description:
-      - mode the file or directory should be, such as 0644 as would be fed to I(chmod)
+      - mode the file or directory should be, such as 0644 as would be fed to I(chmod). As of version 1.8, the mode may be specified as a symbolic mode (for example, C(u+rwx) or C(u=rw,g=r,o=r)).
   owner:
     required: false
     default: null