diff --git a/CHANGELOG.asciidoc b/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
index 890636b3a..a41732c2c 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
+++ b/CHANGELOG.asciidoc
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ Added
 - New setting `tabs -> mousewheel-tab-switching` to control mousewheel behavior on the tab bar.
 - New arguments `--top-navigate` and `--bottom-navigate` (`-t`/`-b`) for `:scroll-page` to specify a navigation action (e.g. automatically go to the next page when arriving at the bottom).
 - New flag `-d`/`--detach` for `:spawn` to detach the spawned process so it's not closed when qutebrowser is.
+- New flag `-v`/`--verbose` for `:spawn` to print informations when the process started/exited successfully.
 - New (hidden) command `:follow-selected` (bound to `Enter`/`Ctrl-Enter` by default) to follow the link which is currently selected (e.g. after searching via `/`).
 - New setting `ui -> modal-js-dialog` to use the standard modal dialogs for javascript questions instead of using the statusbar.
 - New setting `colors -> webpage.bg` to set the background color to use for websites which don't set one.
diff --git a/doc/help/commands.asciidoc b/doc/help/commands.asciidoc
index 5a6ce06bf..5827a8909 100644
--- a/doc/help/commands.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/help/commands.asciidoc
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ Preset the statusbar to some text.
 
 [[spawn]]
 === spawn
-Syntax: +:spawn [*--userscript*] [*--quiet*] 'args' ['args' ...]+
+Syntax: +:spawn [*--userscript*] [*--verbose*] [*--detach*] 'args' ['args' ...]+
 
 Spawn a command in a shell.
 
@@ -523,7 +523,8 @@ Note the {url} variable which gets replaced by the current URL might be useful h
 
 ==== optional arguments
 * +*-u*+, +*--userscript*+: Run the command as an userscript.
-* +*-q*+, +*--quiet*+: Don't print the commandline being executed.
+* +*-v*+, +*--verbose*+: Show notifications when the command started/exited.
+* +*-d*+, +*--detach*+: Whether the command should be detached from qutebrowser.
 
 [[stop]]
 === stop