diff --git a/compiler/cli/cli-common/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/cli/common/arguments/K2JVMCompilerArguments.kt b/compiler/cli/cli-common/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/cli/common/arguments/K2JVMCompilerArguments.kt
index 62a5bf73cd4..e5f66b8138d 100644
--- a/compiler/cli/cli-common/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/cli/common/arguments/K2JVMCompilerArguments.kt
+++ b/compiler/cli/cli-common/src/org/jetbrains/kotlin/cli/common/arguments/K2JVMCompilerArguments.kt
@@ -110,7 +110,9 @@ class K2JVMCompilerArguments : CommonCompilerArguments() {
     @Argument(
         value = "-Xnormalize-constructor-calls",
         valueDescription = "{disable|enable}",
-        description = "Normalize constructor calls (disable: don't normalize; enable: normalize), default is disable"
+        description = "Normalize constructor calls (disable: don't normalize; enable: normalize),\n" +
+                "default is 'disable' in language version 1.2 and below,\n" +
+                "'enable' since language version 1.3"
     )
     var constructorCallNormalizationMode: String? by NullableStringFreezableVar(null)
 
diff --git a/compiler/testData/cli/jvm/extraHelp.out b/compiler/testData/cli/jvm/extraHelp.out
index 280ddd9f508..0ab2579802e 100644
--- a/compiler/testData/cli/jvm/extraHelp.out
+++ b/compiler/testData/cli/jvm/extraHelp.out
@@ -13,7 +13,9 @@ where advanced options include:
   -Xbuild-file=<path>        Path to the .xml build file to compile
   -Xcompile-java             Reuse javac analysis and compile Java source files
   -Xnormalize-constructor-calls={disable|enable}
-                             Normalize constructor calls (disable: don't normalize; enable: normalize), default is disable
+                             Normalize constructor calls (disable: don't normalize; enable: normalize),
+                             default is 'disable' in language version 1.2 and below,
+                             'enable' since language version 1.3
   -Xdump-declarations-to=<path> Path to JSON file to dump Java to Kotlin declaration mappings
   -Xdisable-default-scripting-plugin
                              Do not enable scripting plugin by default