diff --git a/doc/go1.14.html b/doc/go1.14.html
index 5f7366616160d7..d5ad07754a8309 100644
--- a/doc/go1.14.html
+++ b/doc/go1.14.html
@@ -616,6 +616,10 @@ <h3 id="minor_library_changes">Minor changes to the library</h3>
     <p>
       The hash functions are collision-resistant but not cryptographically secure.
     </p>
+    <p>
+      The hash value of a given byte sequence is consistent within a
+      single process, but will be different in different processes.
+    </p>
   </dd>
 </dl><!-- hash/maphash -->
 
diff --git a/src/hash/maphash/maphash.go b/src/hash/maphash/maphash.go
index 3f406e9db634e6..3c0fc3628a8dfc 100644
--- a/src/hash/maphash/maphash.go
+++ b/src/hash/maphash/maphash.go
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
 //
 // The hash functions are collision-resistant but not cryptographically secure.
 // (See crypto/sha256 and crypto/sha512 for cryptographic use.)
+//
+// The hash value of a given byte sequence is consistent within a
+// single process, but will be different in different processes.
 package maphash
 
 import "unsafe"