diff --git a/changelog.d/5325.bugfix b/changelog.d/5325.bugfix
index 6914398bccefe4e5d3601cd7853213aa0b8d538e..b9413388f5bb3f1c8489106e59416a9c725bb03c 100644
--- a/changelog.d/5325.bugfix
+++ b/changelog.d/5325.bugfix
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Add account_validity's email_sent column to the list of boolean columns in synapse_port_db.
+Fix a bug where running synapse_port_db would cause the account validity feature to fail because it didn't set the type of the email_sent column to boolean.