diff --git a/configure/RELEASE b/configure/RELEASE
index 4a0b99a63..48c109170 100644
--- a/configure/RELEASE
+++ b/configure/RELEASE
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 # RELEASE - Location of external support modules
 #
-# IF YOU MAKE ANY CHANGES to this file you must subsequently
-# do a "make rebuild" in this application's top level directory.
+# IF YOU CHANGE ANY PATHS in this file or make API changes to
+# any modules it refers to, you should do a "make rebuild" in
+# this application's top level directory.
 #
-# The build process does not check dependencies against files
-# that are outside this application, thus you should do a
-# "make rebuild" in the top level directory after EPICS_BASE
-# or any other external module pointed to below is rebuilt.
+# The EPICS build process does not check dependencies against
+# any files from outside the application, so it is safest to
+# rebuild it completely if any modules it depends on change.
 #
 # Host- or target-specific settings can be given in files named
 #  RELEASE.$(EPICS_HOST_ARCH).Common
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 #  RELEASE.$(EPICS_HOST_ARCH).$(T_A)
 #
 # This file is parsed by both GNUmake and an EPICS Perl script,
-# so it can ONLY contain definititions of paths to other support
+# so it may ONLY contain definititions of paths to other support
 # modules, variable definitions that are used in module paths,
 # and include statements that pull in other RELEASE files.
 # Variables may be used before their values have been set.
@@ -25,8 +25,8 @@
 #MODULES = /path/to/modules
 #MYMODULE = $(MODULES)/my-module
 
-# If building modules individually, set these:
-#EPICS_BASE = $(MODULES)/core-7.0
+# If building the EPICS modules individually, set these:
+#EPICS_BASE = $(MODULES)/core-7.0.1
 
 # Set RULES here if you want to use build rules from elsewhere:
 #RULES = $(MODULES)/build-rules
@@ -34,4 +34,5 @@
 # These allow developers to override the RELEASE variable settings
 # without having to modify the configure/RELEASE file itself.
 -include $(TOP)/../RELEASE.local
+-include $(TOP)/../RELEASE.$(EPICS_HOST_ARCH).local
 -include $(TOP)/configure/RELEASE.local