diff --git a/docs/releasenotes/2.8.0.rst b/docs/releasenotes/2.8.0.rst
index 5fe485875..85235d72a 100644
--- a/docs/releasenotes/2.8.0.rst
+++ b/docs/releasenotes/2.8.0.rst
@@ -12,3 +12,11 @@ This allows opening of files using both `urllib2` and `requests`, e.g.::
 
     Image.open(urllib2.urlopen(url))
     Image.open(requests.get(url, stream=True).raw)
+
+If the response uses content-encoding (compression, either gzip or deflate) then this will fail as both the urllib2 and requests raw file object will produce compressed data in that case. Using Content-Encoding on images is rather non-sensical as most images are already compressed, but it can still happen.
+
+For requests the work-around is to set the decode_content attribute on the raw object to True::
+
+    response = requests.get(url, stream=True)
+    response.raw.decode_content = True
+    image = Image.open(response.raw)