diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 158840cc..2187630f 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
-3.4.0   2019-02
+3.4.0   2019-02-
+		default log level is now INFO
         repmgr: fix `standby register --force` when updating existing node record (Ian)
+		repmgrd: set LSN shared memory value at standby startup (Ian)
 
 3.3.2   2017-06-01
         Add support for PostgreSQL 10 (Ian)
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index d3a2140e..fabeffa5 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ progname(void)
  * added/changed in reload_config()
  *
  * NOTE: this function is called before the logger is set up, so we need
- * to handle the verbose option ourselves; also the default log level is NOTICE,
+ * to handle the verbose option ourselves; also the default log level is INFO,
  * so we can't use DEBUG.
  */
 bool
diff --git a/log.c b/log.c
index b16676ac..fc5c2541 100644
--- a/log.c
+++ b/log.c
@@ -44,8 +44,8 @@ static void _stderr_log_with_level(const char *level_name, int level, const char
 __attribute__((format(PG_PRINTF_ATTRIBUTE, 3, 0)));
 
 int			log_type = REPMGR_STDERR;
-int			log_level = LOG_NOTICE;
-int			last_log_level = LOG_NOTICE;
+int			log_level = LOG_INFO;
+int			last_log_level = LOG_INFO;
 int			verbose_logging = false;
 int			terse_logging = false;
 /*
diff --git a/repmgr.conf.sample b/repmgr.conf.sample
index 528838e0..23f1093b 100644
--- a/repmgr.conf.sample
+++ b/repmgr.conf.sample
@@ -66,8 +66,8 @@
 # -------------------------------
 
 # Log level: possible values are DEBUG, INFO, NOTICE, WARNING, ERR, ALERT, CRIT or EMERG
-# (default: NOTICE)
-#loglevel=NOTICE
+# (default: INFO)
+#loglevel=INFO
 
 # Note that logging facility settings will only apply to `repmgrd` by default;
 # `repmgr` will always write to STDERR unless the switch `--log-to-file` is