diff --git a/doc/source/user/wf_lang_v2.rst b/doc/source/user/wf_lang_v2.rst
index 53d26b9ab..7cd720fa6 100644
--- a/doc/source/user/wf_lang_v2.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user/wf_lang_v2.rst
@@ -1657,7 +1657,7 @@ Execution info
 
 Execution info is available by **execution()**. It contains
 information about execution itself such as **id**, **wf_spec**,
-**input** and **start_params**.
+**input**, **start_params**, and **root_execution_id** .
 
 Executions function
 '''''''''''''''''''
diff --git a/releasenotes/notes/add_root_execution_id_to_jinja-90b67c69a50370b5.yaml b/releasenotes/notes/add_root_execution_id_to_jinja-90b67c69a50370b5.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e0abef481
--- /dev/null
+++ b/releasenotes/notes/add_root_execution_id_to_jinja-90b67c69a50370b5.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+features:
+  - |
+    This makes getting a root_execution_id available to the jinja execution object. Before this
+    it was only possible to get that through filtering and querying the executions search.