diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4a52a64046..065612a235 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon May 23 07:41:49 2016  Eric Wong  <e@80x24.org>
+
+	* dir.c (dir_close): update RDoc for 2.3 #close change
+	  [ruby-core:75679] [Bug #12413]
+
 Sun May 22 20:01:21 2016  Masatoshi SEKI  <m_seki@mva.biglobe.ne.jp>
 
 	* lib/drb/timeridconv.rb: use finalizer trick instead of thread.
diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
index d00b13ef43..eb89d23894 100644
--- a/dir.c
+++ b/dir.c
@@ -908,8 +908,8 @@ dir_rewind(VALUE dir)
  *  call-seq:
  *     dir.close -> nil
  *
- *  Closes the directory stream. Any further attempts to access
- *  <em>dir</em> will raise an <code>IOError</code>.
+ *  Closes the directory stream.
+ *  Calling this method on closed Dir object is ignored since Ruby 2.3.
  *
  *     d = Dir.new("testdir")
  *     d.close   #=> nil