Mention deprecated/removed Bower repository in 2.13 release notes
Bug: Issue 9831
Change-Id: I9492bbb8351ea25c624ce6fe742ef03c101b6214
diff --git a/pages/site/releases/2.13.md b/pages/site/releases/2.13.md
index fee598a..6b743b7 100644
--- a/pages/site/releases/2.13.md
+++ b/pages/site/releases/2.13.md
@@ -60,6 +60,22 @@
```
This does not affect Java 8, which enables TLS v1.2 by default.
+
+### Workaround for deprecated/removed Bower repository.
+In October 2017, Bower
+[removed the repository used for binary distributions](https://twitter.com/bower/status/918073147789889536),
+which causes clean builds of Gerrit to fail.
+
+To workaround this problem, either cherry-pick
+[this commit](https://gerrit-review.googlesource.com/c/gerrit/+/188097), or
+add a `.bowerrc` file to the source root directory with the following content:
+
+```
+{
+ "registry": "https://registry.bower.io"
+}
+```
+
### Manual Schema Update for Reviewed Flags
Sites that have already upgraded to version 2.13 may want to migrate from the
