diff --git a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/JavadocMethodCheck.java b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/JavadocMethodCheck.java
index 0de0a0b38..97c82ea96 100644
--- a/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/JavadocMethodCheck.java
+++ b/src/checkstyle/com/puppycrawl/tools/checkstyle/checks/javadoc/JavadocMethodCheck.java
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ public class JavadocMethodCheck extends AbstractTypeAwareCheck
 {
     /** compiled regexp to match Javadoc tags that take an argument * */
     private static final Pattern MATCH_JAVADOC_ARG =
-        Utils.createPattern("@(throws|exception|param)\\s+(\\S+)\\s+\\S");
+        Utils.createPattern("@(throws|exception|param)\\s+(\\S+)\\s+\\S*");
 
     /** compiled regexp to match first part of multilineJavadoc tags * */
     private static final Pattern MATCH_JAVADOC_ARG_MULTILINE_START =
diff --git a/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml b/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml
index 352fa3549..ec7d66f2b 100755
--- a/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml
+++ b/src/xdocs/releasenotes.xml
@@ -47,6 +47,10 @@
         <li>
            Updated documentation for writing checks (bug #2783451).
         </li>
+        <li>
+          Report unused Javadoc tags with no trailing whitespace(bug #2506962).
+          Thanks to Ashlesha Patil for patch #2781021.
+        </li>
       </ul>
       <p>Notes:</p>
       <ul>