diff --git a/website/download.html b/website/download.html
index b1b59e4c..2316c6d4 100644
--- a/website/download.html
+++ b/website/download.html
@@ -104,6 +104,9 @@
 	older Recoll packages and gain new file type support without
 	destabilizing your search setup.</p>
 
+      <p>You may be interested by the new XML filter that appeared
+        after the 1.17.2 release.</p>
+
       <h2><a name="source">Source</a></h2>
 
       <h3>Current release distribution: 1.17.2:</h3> 
diff --git a/website/filters/filters.html b/website/filters/filters.html
index 753d4b1e..835fe0ff 100644
--- a/website/filters/filters.html
+++ b/website/filters/filters.html
@@ -74,6 +74,17 @@
         <p>If you are running an older Recoll version, you really
           should upgrade.</p>
       </blockquote>
+      
+      <h2>XML files</h2>
+
+      <p>By default, the current recoll version does not index xml
+        content (except for known formats like dia, svg etc.). This
+        new <a href="rclxml">rclxml</a> filter will extract the data
+        from any xml file. Only text data is extracted, no attribute
+        values. The other option is to treat xml file as plain text
+        one (see comment in mimeconf), and index everything, including
+        a lot of garbage.</p>
+
 
       <h2>DIA files</h2>
       <p><a href="rcldia">rcldia</a> is a new filter