diff --git a/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html b/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html
index a901b5190..76f7a824a 100644
--- a/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html
+++ b/documentation/RELEASE_NOTES.html
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@
 <h2 align="center">Changes between 3.15.1 and 3.15.2</h2>
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+<h3>Raised limit on link field length in database files</h3>
+
+<p>The length of INP/OUT link fields in database files was limited to 79 chars
+by an internal buffer size in the db file parser. This limitation will go away
+completely in 3.16, and has been statically raised to 255 chars for the 3.15
+series.</p>
+
 <h3>aoRecord raw conversion overflows</h3>
 
 <p>The ao record type now checks converted raw values and limits them to the
diff --git a/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbStaticLib.c b/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbStaticLib.c
index dfbf3ab14..4f6990cfb 100644
--- a/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbStaticLib.c
+++ b/src/ioc/dbStatic/dbStaticLib.c
@@ -2087,7 +2087,7 @@ long dbPutString(DBENTRY *pdbentry,const char *pstring)
     case DBF_OUTLINK:
     case DBF_FWDLINK: {
 	    DBLINK	*plink;
-	    char	string[80];
+        char	string[256];
 	    char	*pstr = string;
 
 	    if (!pfield)