diff --git a/base/doc/ltnews40.tex b/base/doc/ltnews40.tex
index a3bb2c178..f1f9566eb 100644
--- a/base/doc/ltnews40.tex
+++ b/base/doc/ltnews40.tex
@@ -540,10 +540,10 @@ \subsection{Handling of global keys with spaces}
 If the global (class) options contained spaces around key names,
 \cs{ProcessKeyOptions} would fail to remove known keys from the list
 of unused global options and \cs{OptionNotUsed} would mistakenly add
-space-surrounded key names to that list.  This has been corrected as
+space-surrounded key names to that list.  The first issue has been corrected as
 a hotfix in patch level 1 of the November 2023 release (but
-unfortunately not mentioned in~\cite{40:ltnews38}) and the current
-release, respectively.
+unfortunately not mentioned in~\cite{40:ltnews38}) and the second in the current
+release.
 %
 \githubissue{1238}