diff --git a/.changelog/15514.txt b/.changelog/15514.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3b4ad4caf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changelog/15514.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+```release-note:breaking-change
+artifact: environment variables no longer inherited by default from Nomad client
+```
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index dd3131989..b43202d3e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ BREAKING CHANGES:
 * config: the `datacenter` field for agent configuration no longer accepts the `*` character as part of the datacenter name [[GH-11170](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/11170)]
 * core: Ensure no leakage of evaluations for batch jobs. Prior to this change allocations and evaluations for batch jobs were never garbage collected until the batch job was explicitly stopped. The new `batch_eval_gc_threshold` server configuration controls how often they are collected. The default threshold is `24h`. [[GH-15097](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/15097)]
 * metrics: The metric `nomad.nomad.broker.total_blocked` has been renamed to `nomad.nomad.broker.total_pending` to reduce confusion with the `nomad.blocked_eval.total_blocked` metric. [[GH-15835](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/15835)]
+* artifact: Environment variables are no longer inherited by default from the Nomad client [[GH-15514](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/15514)]
+* artifact: File size and count limits are now applied by default to artifact downloads [[GH-16151](https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/16151)]
 
 SECURITY:
 
diff --git a/website/content/docs/job-specification/artifact.mdx b/website/content/docs/job-specification/artifact.mdx
index f42692b60..6fc62cf9c 100644
--- a/website/content/docs/job-specification/artifact.mdx
+++ b/website/content/docs/job-specification/artifact.mdx
@@ -244,6 +244,12 @@ artifact {
 }
 ```
 
+## Environment
+
+The `artifact` downloader by default does not have access to the environment variables
+set for the Nomad client. Inheritence of environment variables can be managed through the [`artifact.set_environment_variables`][client_artifact]
+client configuration.
+
 [client_artifact]: /nomad/docs/configuration/client#artifact-parameters
 [go-getter]: https://github.com/hashicorp/go-getter 'HashiCorp go-getter Library'
 [go-getter-headers]: https://github.com/hashicorp/go-getter#headers 'HashiCorp go-getter Headers'