diff --git a/doc/update/versions/gitlab_16_changes.md b/doc/update/versions/gitlab_16_changes.md
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--- a/doc/update/versions/gitlab_16_changes.md
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@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@ For more information about upgrading GitLab Helm Chart, see [the release notes f
 
 ## 16.3.0
 
+- **Update to GitLab 16.3.5 or later**. This avoids [issue 425971](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/425971) that causes an excessive use of database disk space for GitLab 16.3.3 and 16.3.4. 
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 - A unique index was added to ensure that there’s no duplicate NPM packages in the database. If you have duplicate NPM packages, you need to upgrade to 16.1 first, or you are likely to run into the following error: `PG::UniqueViolation: ERROR:  could not create unique index "idx_packages_on_project_id_name_version_unique_when_npm"`. 
 
 - For Go applications, [`crypto/tls`: verifying certificate chains containing large RSA keys is slow (CVE-2023-29409)](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/61460)