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@@ -117,11 +117,13 @@ For example:
 For information about building the X-Pack Reference, see the README in the x-pack repo.
 
 To build a release notes page for the pull requests in this repository:
-* You must have a personal access token called ~/.github_auth with "repo" scope. Use steps similar to "Vault Secret" to create this file. 
+
 * Use the dev-tools/xes-release-notes.pl script.
 * Specify the version label for which you want the release notes.
 * Redirect the output to a new local file.
 
+NOTE: You must have a personal access token called ~/.github_auth with "repo" scope. Use steps similar to "Vault Secret" to create this file. 
+
 For example:
 [source, txt]
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