diff --git a/changelogs/appendices/newsfragments/1583.feature b/changelogs/appendices/newsfragments/1583.feature
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@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Allow `+` in Matrix IDs, per [MSC4009](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/4009).
diff --git a/content/appendices.md b/content/appendices.md
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@@ -540,6 +540,8 @@ be represented with a `domain` component under some conditions - see the
 
 #### User Identifiers
 
+{{% changed-in v="1.8" %}}
+
 Users within Matrix are uniquely identified by their Matrix user ID. The
 user ID is namespaced to the homeserver which allocated the account and
 has the form:
@@ -548,7 +550,7 @@ has the form:
 
 The `localpart` of a user ID is an opaque identifier for that user. It
 MUST NOT be empty, and MUST contain only the characters `a-z`, `0-9`,
-`.`, `_`, `=`, `-`, and `/`.
+`.`, `_`, `=`, `-`, `/`, and `+`.
 
 The `domain` of a user ID is the [server name](#server-name) of the
 homeserver which allocated the account.
@@ -562,7 +564,7 @@ The complete grammar for a legal user ID is:
     user_id_localpart = 1*user_id_char
     user_id_char = DIGIT
                  / %x61-7A                   ; a-z
-                 / "-" / "." / "=" / "_" / "/"
+                 / "-" / "." / "=" / "_" / "/" / "+"
 
 {{% boxes/rationale %}}
 A number of factors were considered when defining the allowable