diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 730721a..1bdb918 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -200,6 +200,10 @@ Foo foo = template.execute(new RetryCallback<Foo>() {
 If the business logic does not succeed before the template decides to abort, the client is
 given the chance to do some alternate processing through the recovery callback.
 
+Version 1.3.3 added the `noRecoveryForNotRetryable` property to the template.
+When `true`, the recovery callback is not invoked if the retry policy is configured with a not-retryable exception and one is thrown.
+By default, the recovery callback is always called, regardless of whether the exception is retryable or not.
+
 ## Stateless Retry
 
 In the simplest case, a retry is just a while loop: the `RetryTemplate` can keep trying
@@ -576,6 +580,8 @@ Expressions can contain property placeholders, such as `#{${max.delay}}` or
 during initialization. There is no root object for the evaluation but they can reference
 other beans in the context.
 
+Version 1.3.3 added the `rethrow` attribute to `@Retryable`; when `true` any exceptions that are not retryable are thrown unchanged to the caller and the `@Recover` method is not called.
+
 #### <a name="Additional_Dependencies"></a> Additional Dependencies
 
 The declarative approach to applying retry handling by using the `@Retryable` annotation
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/springframework/retry/support/RetryTemplate.java b/src/main/java/org/springframework/retry/support/RetryTemplate.java
index 0726221..6d213a3 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/springframework/retry/support/RetryTemplate.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/springframework/retry/support/RetryTemplate.java
@@ -127,6 +127,10 @@ public class RetryTemplate implements RetryOperations {
 	}
 
 	/**
+	 * Set to true to not call the recovery callback (if any) when a not-retryable
+	 * exception is thrown by the target code in
+	 * {@link #execute(RetryCallback, RecoveryCallback)}. By default, the callback is
+	 * invoked when retries are exhausted, or immediately for not-retryable exceptions.
 	 * @param noRecoveryForNotRetryable the noRecoveryForNotRetryable to set
 	 * @since 1.3.3
 	 */
@@ -542,6 +546,7 @@ public class RetryTemplate implements RetryOperations {
 		if (state != null && !context.hasAttribute(GLOBAL_STATE)) {
 			this.retryContextCache.remove(state.getKey());
 		}
+		// TODO: In 2.0 add retryForException() to the interface.
 		if (this.noRecoveryForNotRetryable && retryPolicy instanceof SimpleRetryPolicy
 				&& !((SimpleRetryPolicy) retryPolicy).retryForException(context.getLastThrowable())) {
 			throw context.getLastThrowable();