diff --git a/textile/chat-features.textile b/textile/chat-features.textile
index b52307c3..39324567 100644
--- a/textile/chat-features.textile
+++ b/textile/chat-features.textile
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ Broadly speaking, messages are published via REST calls to the Chat HTTP API and
 ** @(CHA-M5c)@ @[Testable]@ If a channel leaves the @ATTACHED@ state and then re-enters @ATTACHED@ with @resumed=false@, then it must be assumed that messages have been missed. The @subscription point@ of any subscribers must be reset to the @attachSerial@.
 ** @(CHA-M5d)@ @[Testable]@ If a channel @UPDATE@ event is received and @resumed=false@, then it must be assumed that messages have been missed. The @subscription point@ of any subscribers must be reset to the @attachSerial@.
 ** @(CHA-M5e)@ Each subscription shall expose a method or callback that allows for messages to be queried. These messages are queried via the "REST API"#rest-fetching-messages.
-** @(CHA-M5f)@ @[Testable]@ This method must accept any of the standard history query options, except for @direction@, which must always be @backwards@.
+** @(CHA-M5f)@ @[Testable]@ This method must accept any of the standard history query options, except for @orderBy@, which must always be @newestFirst@.
 ** @(CHA-M5g)@ @[Testable]@ The subscribers @subscription point@ must be additionally specified (internally, by us) in the @fromSerial@ query parameter.
 ** @(CHA-M5h)@ @[Testable]@ The method must return a standard @PaginatedResult@ , which can be further inspected to paginate across results.
 ** @(CHA-M5i)@ @[Testable]@ If the REST API returns an error, then the method must throw its @ErrorInfo@ representation.