diff --git a/docs/pages/release_notes.md b/docs/pages/release_notes.md
index 74e1ad52fa..34f16eb60f 100644
--- a/docs/pages/release_notes.md
+++ b/docs/pages/release_notes.md
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ For the changes, see [PMD Designer Changelog](https://github.com/pmd/pmd-designe
     *   [#2108](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2108): \[java] \[doc] ImmutableField rule: Description should clarify shallow immutability
     *   [#2461](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2461): \[java] ExcessiveParameterListRule must ignore a private constructor
 *   java-errorprone
+    *   [#2264](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2264): \[java] SuspiciousEqualsMethodName: Improve description about error-prone overloading of equals()
     *   [#2410](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2410): \[java] ProperCloneImplementation not valid for final class
     *   [#2431](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2431): \[java] InvalidLogMessageFormatRule throws IndexOutOfBoundsException when only logging exception message
     *   [#2439](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/issues/2439): \[java] AvoidCatchingThrowable can not detect the case: catch (java.lang.Throwable t)
@@ -178,6 +179,7 @@ are deprecated as internal API.
 *   [#2700](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2700): \[java] Fix OnlyOneReturn code example - [Jan-Lukas Else](https://github.com/jlelse)
 *   [#2722](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2722): \[doc] \[java] ImmutableField: extend description, fixes #2108 - [Mateusz Stefanski](https://github.com/mateusz-stefanski)
 *   [#2723](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2723): \[doc] \[java] SimplifyStartsWith: update description and example, fixes #1868 - [Mateusz Stefanski](https://github.com/mateusz-stefanski)
+*   [#2724](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2724): \[doc] [java] SuspiciousEqualsMethodName: update description, fixes #2264 - [Mateusz Stefanski](https://github.com/mateusz-stefanski)
 *   [#2725](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2725): Cleanup: change valueOf to parse when we need primitive return value. - [XenoAmess](https://github.com/XenoAmess)
 *   [#2726](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2726): Cleanup: replace StringBuffer with StringBuilder - [XenoAmess](https://github.com/XenoAmess)
 *   [#2727](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/2727): Cleanup: replace indexOf() < 0 with contains - [XenoAmess](https://github.com/XenoAmess)
diff --git a/pmd-java/src/main/resources/category/java/errorprone.xml b/pmd-java/src/main/resources/category/java/errorprone.xml
index 65979fcc61..94875fb765 100644
--- a/pmd-java/src/main/resources/category/java/errorprone.xml
+++ b/pmd-java/src/main/resources/category/java/errorprone.xml
@@ -3052,8 +3052,12 @@ StringBuilder sb4 = new StringBuilder("c");
           class="net.sourceforge.pmd.lang.rule.XPathRule"
           externalInfoUrl="${pmd.website.baseurl}/pmd_rules_java_errorprone.html#suspiciousequalsmethodname">
         <description>
-The method name and parameter number are suspiciously close to equals(Object), which can denote an
-intention to override the equals(Object) method.
+The method name and parameter number are suspiciously close to `Object.equals`, which can denote an
+intention to override it. However, the method does not override `Object.equals`, but overloads it instead.
+Overloading `Object.equals` method is confusing for other programmers, error-prone and hard to maintain,
+especially when using inheritance, because `@Override` annotations used in subclasses can provide a false
+sense of security. For more information on `Object.equals` method, see Effective Java, 3rd Edition,
+Item 10: Obey the general contract when overriding equals.
         </description>
         <priority>2</priority>
         <properties>