diff --git a/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Balance.md b/hledger/Hledger/Cli/Commands/Balance.md
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@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ $ hledger balance
 By default, accounts are displayed hierarchically, with subaccounts indented below their parent.
 At each level of the tree, accounts are sorted by [account code](/journal.html#declaring-accounts) if any, then by account name.
 Or with `-S/--sort-amount`, by their balance amount, largest first. 
-(Note: `-S` has a [problem](https://github.com/simonmichael/hledger/issues/1279) in hledger 1.11-1.18).
 
 "Boring" accounts, which contain a single interesting subaccount and 
 no balance of their own, are elided into the following line for more compact output.