diff --git a/doc/manual/change-authors.yml b/doc/manual/change-authors.yml
index ef3c6f245..547b58373 100644
--- a/doc/manual/change-authors.yml
+++ b/doc/manual/change-authors.yml
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ ericson:
   display_name: John Ericson
   github: ericson2314
 
+gilice:
+  forgejo: gilice
+
 goldstein:
   display_name: goldstein
   forgejo: goldstein
diff --git a/doc/manual/rl-next/flake-lockfile-crash.md b/doc/manual/rl-next/flake-lockfile-crash.md
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4c7d98d0b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/manual/rl-next/flake-lockfile-crash.md
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+---
+synopsis: "Parsing failures in flake.lock no longer crash Lix"
+issues: [fj#559]
+cls: [2401]
+category: "Fixes"
+credits: ["gilice"]
+---
+Failure to parse `flake.lock` no longer hard-crashes Lix and instead produces a nice error message.
+
+```
+error:
+       … while updating the lock file of flake 'git+file:///Users/jade/lix/lix2'
+
+       … while parsing the lock file at /nix/store/mm5dqh8a729yazzj82cjffxl97n5c62s-source//flake.lock
+
+       error: [json.exception.parse_error.101] parse error at line 1, column 1: syntax error while parsing value - invalid literal;
+ last read: '#'
+```