diff --git a/changelog/7305.feature.rst b/changelog/7305.feature.rst
index 8e8ae85ae..b8c0ca693 100644
--- a/changelog/7305.feature.rst
+++ b/changelog/7305.feature.rst
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-New `require_plugins` configuration option allows the user to specify a list of plugins required for pytest to run.
+New `require_plugins` configuration option allows the user to specify a list of plugins required for pytest to run. Warnings are raised if these plugins are not found when running pytest.
 
 The `--strict-config` flag can be used to treat these warnings as errors.
diff --git a/doc/en/reference.rst b/doc/en/reference.rst
index dc82fe239..6b270796c 100644
--- a/doc/en/reference.rst
+++ b/doc/en/reference.rst
@@ -1570,7 +1570,7 @@ passed multiple times. The expected format is ``name=value``. For example::
    .. code-block:: ini
 
        [pytest]
-       require_plugins = pytest-xdist pytest-mock
+       require_plugins = html xdist
 
 
 .. confval:: testpaths