diff --git a/systemd-mini.changes b/systemd-mini.changes
index d0523373..1751888e 100644
--- a/systemd-mini.changes
+++ b/systemd-mini.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar 22 21:12:40 UTC 2021 - Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
+
+- Default to the "unified" cgroup hierarchy. At this point, most
+  users of cgroup (such as docker, libvirt, kubernetes) should be 
+  ready for this change. It's still possible to switch back to the
+  old "hybrid" hierarchy by passing "systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0"
+  option to the kernel command line.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Mar 15 15:56:45 UTC 2021 - Franck Bui <fbui@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/systemd.changes b/systemd.changes
index d0523373..1751888e 100644
--- a/systemd.changes
+++ b/systemd.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,12 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Mar 22 21:12:40 UTC 2021 - Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com>
+
+- Default to the "unified" cgroup hierarchy. At this point, most
+  users of cgroup (such as docker, libvirt, kubernetes) should be 
+  ready for this change. It's still possible to switch back to the
+  old "hybrid" hierarchy by passing "systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0"
+  option to the kernel command line.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Mar 15 15:56:45 UTC 2021 - Franck Bui <fbui@suse.com>
 
diff --git a/systemd.spec b/systemd.spec
index dda477e4..d20fdc64 100644
--- a/systemd.spec
+++ b/systemd.spec
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ systemd-journal-remote, and systemd-journal-upload.
         -Dpamlibdir=%{_pamdir} \
         -Drpmmacrosdir=no \
         -Dcertificate-root=%{_sysconfdir}/pki/systemd \
-        -Ddefault-hierarchy=hybrid \
+        -Ddefault-hierarchy=unified \
         -Ddefault-kill-user-processes=false \
         -Drc-local=/etc/init.d/boot.local \
         -Dbump-proc-sys-fs-nr-open=false \