diff --git a/UPDATING b/UPDATING
index 2e5dc88a49c..65fb2f8b8c4 100644
--- a/UPDATING
+++ b/UPDATING
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ Items affecting the ports and packages system can be found in
 /usr/ports/UPDATING.  Please read that file before updating system packages
 and/or ports.
 
+20250419:
+	LinuxKPI alloc routines were changed to return physically contiguous
+	memory where expected. These changes may require out-of-tree drivers
+	to be recompiled.
+	Bump __FreeBSD_version to 1402505 to be able to detect this change.
+
 20250419:
 	Intel iwlwifi firmware has been removed from the src repository.
 	Before updating their system, users of iwlwifi(4) or iwx(4) must
diff --git a/sys/sys/param.h b/sys/sys/param.h
index 12a0e2098fe..954e18cb48c 100644
--- a/sys/sys/param.h
+++ b/sys/sys/param.h
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
  * cannot include sys/param.h and should only be updated here.
  */
 #undef __FreeBSD_version
-#define __FreeBSD_version 1402504
+#define __FreeBSD_version 1402505
 
 /*
  * __FreeBSD_kernel__ indicates that this system uses the kernel of FreeBSD,