diff --git a/HISTORY b/HISTORY
index 59a5f7e4..1cf5fc8a 100644
--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
         repmgr: report unreachable nodes when running "repmgr cluster (matrix|crosscheck);
           GitHub #246 (Ian)
         repmgr: add configuration file parameter "repmgr_bindir"; GitHub #246 (Ian)
+        repmgrd: fix parsing of -d/--daemonize option (Ian)
 
 4.1.1   2018-09-05
         logging: explicitly log the text of failed queries as ERRORs to
diff --git a/doc/appendix-release-notes.sgml b/doc/appendix-release-notes.sgml
index 842e40b4..32231f0c 100644
--- a/doc/appendix-release-notes.sgml
+++ b/doc/appendix-release-notes.sgml
@@ -95,6 +95,20 @@
         </itemizedlist>
       </para>
     </sect2>
+
+    <sect2>
+      <title>Bug fixes</title>
+      <para>
+        <itemizedlist>
+          <listitem>
+            <para>
+              <application>repmgrd</application>: fix parsing of <option>-d/--daemonize</option> option.
+            </para>
+          </listitem>
+
+        </itemizedlist>
+      </para>
+    </sect2>
   </sect1>
 
   <sect1 id="release-4.1.1">
diff --git a/repmgrd.c b/repmgrd.c
index 06eba3ec..99f42b13 100644
--- a/repmgrd.c
+++ b/repmgrd.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
 
 	memset(pid_file, 0, MAXPGPATH);
 
-	while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "?Vf:L:vdp:m", long_options, &optindex)) != -1)
+	while ((c = getopt_long(argc, argv, "?Vf:L:vd:p:m", long_options, &optindex)) != -1)
 	{
 		switch (c)
 		{