diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7854890901..44906140b4 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ system's kernel. The result should contain `bbr`:
 sysctl net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control
 ```
 
-If not, enable it on Linux by calling the `make use-bbr` or by running:
+If not, enable it on Linux by calling the `make enable-bbr` or by running:
 
 ```sh
 sudo modprobe tcp_bbr
diff --git a/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md b/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md
index 1ca2be4f41..8e501224ac 100644
--- a/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/release-notes/release-notes.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ This guide provides notes for major version releases. These notes may be helpful
 ### Node Operators (v3.0.0)
 
 - Consensus node operators must enable the BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time) congestion control algorithm. See [#3774](https://github.com/celestiaorg/celestia-app/pull/3774).
+  - if using linux in docker, kubernetes, a vm or baremetal, this can be done by calling the `make enable-bbr` command on the host machine.
 - Consensus node operators should manually configure their node's mempool `ttl-num-blocks = 12` in config.toml. An example command to do this:
 
   ```bash