diff --git a/lib/migrations/20220901102800-convert-history-to-longtext.js b/lib/migrations/20220901102800-convert-history-to-longtext.js
index 75e3e58a..b17fe9c6 100644
--- a/lib/migrations/20220901102800-convert-history-to-longtext.js
+++ b/lib/migrations/20220901102800-convert-history-to-longtext.js
@@ -5,5 +5,11 @@ module.exports = {
     return queryInterface.changeColumn('Users', 'history', {
       type: Sequelize.TEXT('long')
     })
+  },
+
+  down: function (queryInterface, Sequelize) {
+    return queryInterface.changeColumn('Users', 'history', {
+      type: Sequelize.TEXT
+    })
   }
 }
diff --git a/public/docs/release-notes.md b/public/docs/release-notes.md
index 3e959e96..baea1271 100644
--- a/public/docs/release-notes.md
+++ b/public/docs/release-notes.md
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 
 ### Bugfixes
 - Fix a crash when using LDAP authentication with custom search attributes (thanks to [@aboettger-tuhh](https://github.com/aboettger-tuhh) for reporting)
+- Fix crash caused by a long note history when the MySQL database is used
 
 ## <i class="fa fa-tag"></i> 1.9.4 <i class="fa fa-calendar-o"></i> 2022-07-10