diff --git a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
index dab66b2d1..4b508c939 100755
--- a/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
+++ b/salt/manager/tools/sbin/soup
@@ -995,6 +995,7 @@ up_to_2.4.210() {
   # Elastic Update for this release, so download Elastic Agent files
   determine_elastic_agent_upgrade
   create_ca_pillar
+  # This state is used to deal with the breaking change introduced in 3006.17 - https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.17.html
   # This is the only way the state is called so we can use concurrent=True
   salt-call state.apply salt.master.add_minimum_auth_version --file-root=$UPDATE_DIR/salt --local concurrent=True
   INSTALLEDVERSION=2.4.210
diff --git a/salt/salt/master/add_minimum_auth_version.sls b/salt/salt/master/add_minimum_auth_version.sls
index 38612260d..768065a25 100644
--- a/salt/salt/master/add_minimum_auth_version.sls
+++ b/salt/salt/master/add_minimum_auth_version.sls
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 # Elastic License 2.0.
 
 # This state is to be used during soup preupgrade_changes, and run when the salt-master has been stopped. Soup will later start the salt-master.
+# This state is used to deal with the breaking change introduced in 3006.17 - https://docs.saltproject.io/en/3006/topics/releases/3006.17.html
+
 
 set_minimum_auth_version_0:
   file.managed: