diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index 99cb3dfb25a22036dd6e0fcd329bde991abd5d6e..fe12cb6fb89493787980ce0492c11561b9056ebb 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 ## Unreleased
 ### New Features
 * Introduced `Memoryllocator`, which lets the user specify custom allocator for memory in block cache.
+* Improved `DeleteRange` to prevent read performance degradation. The feature is no longer marked as experimental.
 ### Public API Change
 * `NO_ITERATORS` is divided into two counters `NO_ITERATOR_CREATED` and `NO_ITERATOR_DELETE`. Both of them are only increasing now, just as other counters.
 ### Bug Fixes
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/db.h b/include/rocksdb/db.h
index 51d4df5984c149ad2f3a412372f780792326f3dc..6a37084c52e466bec1e6c6cb234c771ce5489314 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/db.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/db.h
@@ -287,16 +287,12 @@ class DB {
   // a non-OK status on error. It is not an error if no keys exist in the range
   // ["begin_key", "end_key").
   //
-  // This feature is currently an experimental performance optimization for
-  // deleting very large ranges of contiguous keys. Invoking it many times or on
-  // small ranges may severely degrade read performance; in particular, the
-  // resulting performance can be worse than calling Delete() for each key in
-  // the range. Note also the degraded read performance affects keys outside the
-  // deleted ranges, and affects database operations involving scans, like flush
-  // and compaction.
-  //
-  // Consider setting ReadOptions::ignore_range_deletions = true to speed
-  // up reads for key(s) that are known to be unaffected by range deletions.
+  // This feature is now usable in production, with the following caveats:
+  // 1) Accumulating many range tombstones in the memtable will degrade read
+  // performance; this can be avoided by manually flushing occasionally.
+  // 2) Limiting the maximum number of open files in the presence of range
+  // tombstones can degrade read performance. To avoid this problem, set
+  // max_open_files to -1 whenever possible.
   virtual Status DeleteRange(const WriteOptions& options,
                              ColumnFamilyHandle* column_family,
                              const Slice& begin_key, const Slice& end_key);