diff --git a/pmd-java/src/main/resources/rulesets/java/design.xml b/pmd-java/src/main/resources/rulesets/java/design.xml
index 45075f7011..681cd2407d 100644
--- a/pmd-java/src/main/resources/rulesets/java/design.xml
+++ b/pmd-java/src/main/resources/rulesets/java/design.xml
@@ -1771,7 +1771,8 @@ having to deal with the creation of an array.
     [position()=last()]
     [@Array='true']
     [@Varargs='false']
-    [not (./Type/ReferenceType[@Array='true'][PrimitiveType[@Image='byte']] or ./Type/ReferenceType[ClassOrInterfaceType[@Image='Byte']])]
+    [not (./Type/ReferenceType[@Array='true'][PrimitiveType[@Image='byte']])]
+    [not (./Type/ReferenceType[ClassOrInterfaceType[@Image='Byte']])]
     [not (./Type/PrimitiveType[@Image='byte'])]
             ]]></value>
             </property>
diff --git a/src/site/markdown/overview/changelog.md b/src/site/markdown/overview/changelog.md
index 84728ac669..08a0bbf839 100644
--- a/src/site/markdown/overview/changelog.md
+++ b/src/site/markdown/overview/changelog.md
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 
 * [#45](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/45): #1290 RuleSetReferenceId does not process HTTP(S) correctly.
 * [#46](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/46): Allow byte[] as no-vargars last argument
+* [#47](https://github.com/pmd/pmd/pull/47): Allow byte[] data and byte data[] as no-varargs last argument
 
 **Bugfixes:**