diff --git a/PendingReleaseNotes b/PendingReleaseNotes
index ca4716a1094..4d4ece4faeb 100644
--- a/PendingReleaseNotes
+++ b/PendingReleaseNotes
@@ -9,3 +9,6 @@ v0.78
   inode that has an outdated backtrace attribute will get updated when
   the inode itself is modified.  This will result in some extra workload
   after a legacy CephFS file system is upgraded.
+
+* The per-op return code in librados' ObjectWriteOperation interface
+  is now filled in.
diff --git a/src/osdc/Objecter.h b/src/osdc/Objecter.h
index cc75434ffad..24eeeb08641 100644
--- a/src/osdc/Objecter.h
+++ b/src/osdc/Objecter.h
@@ -1605,6 +1605,7 @@ public:
     o->priority = op.priority;
     o->mtime = mtime;
     o->snapc = snapc;
+    o->out_rval.swap(op.out_rval);
     return o;
   }
   tid_t mutate(const object_t& oid, const object_locator_t& oloc,