diff --git a/topics/appendix/tools/gradle_intellij_plugin/tools_gradle_intellij_plugin.md b/topics/appendix/tools/gradle_intellij_plugin/tools_gradle_intellij_plugin.md
index 18064b3c2..aa1adb88b 100644
--- a/topics/appendix/tools/gradle_intellij_plugin/tools_gradle_intellij_plugin.md
+++ b/topics/appendix/tools/gradle_intellij_plugin/tools_gradle_intellij_plugin.md
@@ -1335,6 +1335,7 @@ Default value
 {id="tasks-runpluginverifier-downloaddir"}
 
 The path to directory where IDEs used for the verification will be downloaded.
+By default, it relies on the `plugin.verifier.home.dir` system property and falls back to `XDG_CACHE_HOME` environment variable – see [XDG Base Directory](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory) for more details.
 
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diff --git a/topics/appendix/tools/gradle_intellij_plugin/tools_gradle_intellij_plugin_faq.md b/topics/appendix/tools/gradle_intellij_plugin/tools_gradle_intellij_plugin_faq.md
index aa2acbc59..3c95518f2 100644
--- a/topics/appendix/tools/gradle_intellij_plugin/tools_gradle_intellij_plugin_faq.md
+++ b/topics/appendix/tools/gradle_intellij_plugin/tools_gradle_intellij_plugin_faq.md
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@ See the [](bundling_plugin_openapi_sources.md) section for details.
 
 ### The Plugin Verifier download directory is set to [...], but downloaded IDEs were also found in [...]
 
-With the `1.10.0` release, the [`runPluginVerifier`](tools_gradle_intellij_plugin.md#tasks-runpluginverifier) task uses the `XDG_CACHE_HOME` environment variable to resolve the default directory for downloaded IDEs – instead of the user's home directory.
+With the `1.10.0` release, the [`runPluginVerifier`](tools_gradle_intellij_plugin.md#tasks-runpluginverifier) task uses the `XDG_CACHE_HOME` environment variable (see [XDG Base Directory](https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_Base_Directory) for more details) to resolve the default directory for downloaded IDEs – instead of the user's home directory.
 We recommend moving your existing IDEs stored i.e., in <path>~/.pluginVerifier/ides/</path> directory into <path>$XDG_CACHE_HOME/pluginVerifier/ides</path> to avoid downloading them once again.
 
 In case you want to keep the downloaded archives in the previous location, specify the given path explicitly to the [`runPluginVerifier.downloadDir`](tools_gradle_intellij_plugin.md#tasks-runpluginverifier-downloaddir) property: