diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8173c9073..8672f42dd 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
           Daniel Shahaf).
 - TW-1733 taskwarrior 2.5.0 can not compile FreeBSD 10.1 (thanks to ribbon).
 - TW-1738 add defined languages JAPANESE (thanks to ribbon).
+- TW-1741 Warning "ignoring return value of ‘int ftruncate" while doing make on
+          xubuntu15.10 (thanks to Sunil Joshi).
 - TW-1742 Indian Holiday Calendar (Master HolidayFile) (thanks to Sunil Joshi).
 - TW-1748 CMakeLists shouldn't hardcode libc++ on Darwin (thanks to Misty De Meo).
 - TW-1749 PATH_MAX isn't defined in FS.cpp in some versions of OS X (thanks to
diff --git a/src/FS.cpp b/src/FS.cpp
index e0bb57ad2..f7589d907 100644
--- a/src/FS.cpp
+++ b/src/FS.cpp
@@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ void File::truncate ()
     open ();
 
   if (_fh)
-    ftruncate (_h, 0);
+    (void) ftruncate (_h, 0);
 }
 
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