diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md
index f511fee22..fe7f69d1f 100644
--- a/doc/release-notes.md
+++ b/doc/release-notes.md
@@ -53,11 +53,15 @@ Removal of Priority Estimation
 
 - Estimation of "priority" needed for a transaction to be included within a target
   number of blocks has been removed.  The rpc calls are deprecated and will either
-  return -1 or 1e24 appropriately. The format for fee_estimates.dat has also
+  return -1 or 1e24 appropriately. The format for `fee_estimates.dat` has also
   changed to no longer save these priority estimates. It will automatically be
   converted to the new format which is not readable by prior versions of the
   software.
 
+- The concept of "priority" transactions is planned to be removed in the next
+  major version. To prepare for this, the default for the rate limit of priority
+  transactions (`-limitfreerelay`) has been set to `0` kB/minute.
+
 0.14.0 Change log
 =================
 
diff --git a/src/main.h b/src/main.h
index 678f0fd99..48fc3306f 100644
--- a/src/main.h
+++ b/src/main.h
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ static const int64_t BLOCK_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT_BASE = 1000000;
 /** Additional block download timeout per parallel downloading peer (i.e. 5 min) */
 static const int64_t BLOCK_DOWNLOAD_TIMEOUT_PER_PEER = 500000;
 
-static const unsigned int DEFAULT_LIMITFREERELAY = 15;
+static const unsigned int DEFAULT_LIMITFREERELAY = 0;
 static const bool DEFAULT_RELAYPRIORITY = true;
 static const int64_t DEFAULT_MAX_TIP_AGE = 24 * 60 * 60;