diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index ad5c6bc3..247f0b4d 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
         repmgr: fix upstream node display in "repmgr node status"; GitHub #363 (fanf2)
         repmgr: improve/clarify documentation and update --help output for
           "primary unregister"; GitHub #373 (Ian)
+        repmgr: fix parsing of "pg_basebackup_options"; GitHub #376 (Ian)
 
 4.0.2   2018-01-18
         repmgr: add missing -W option to getopt_long() invocation; GitHub #350 (Ian)
diff --git a/configfile.c b/configfile.c
index 8402ef4b..ee07829a 100644
--- a/configfile.c
+++ b/configfile.c
@@ -1689,9 +1689,6 @@ free_parsed_argv(char ***argv_array)
 }
 
 
-
-
-
 bool
 parse_pg_basebackup_options(const char *pg_basebackup_options, t_basebackup_options *backup_options, int server_version_num, ItemList *error_list)
 {
diff --git a/doc/appendix-release-notes.sgml b/doc/appendix-release-notes.sgml
index d0ffc321..ce3d86c6 100644
--- a/doc/appendix-release-notes.sgml
+++ b/doc/appendix-release-notes.sgml
@@ -101,6 +101,12 @@
             </para>
           </listitem>
 
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              parsining of <varname>pg_basebackup_options</varname> fixed (GitHub #376)
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+
         </itemizedlist>
 
       </para>