diff --git a/varnish.changes b/varnish.changes
index 88466a3..a3cfa8e 100644
--- a/varnish.changes
+++ b/varnish.changes
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 Sun Sep 25 13:44:37 UTC 2016 - jengelh@inai.de
 
 - Update to new upstream release 5.0.0
+- The varnishd "-u NNN" option, which may be remaining in
+  /etc/sysconfig/varnish, has been replaced with "-j unix,user=NNN".
 * Varnish 5.0 changes some (mostly) internal APIs and adds some
   major new features over Varnish 4.1.
 * 5.0 supports jumping from the active VCL's vcl_recv{} to another
diff --git a/varnish.sysconfig b/varnish.sysconfig
index 9c271e9..51b9b4d 100644
--- a/varnish.sysconfig
+++ b/varnish.sysconfig
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
 #
 # You might want to keep "/var/cache/varnish" when using the file backend.
 #
-VARNISHD_PARAMS="-f /etc/varnish/vcl.conf -T:6082 -s file,/var/cache/varnish,1M -u varnish"
+VARNISHD_PARAMS="-j unix,user=varnish -f /etc/varnish/vcl.conf -T:6082 -s file,/var/cache/varnish,1M"
 
 ## Path:	Network/WWW/Varnishd
 ## Description:	Start parameters for varnishlog