diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index f49cbf1d5..adb1060b3 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "actix-web"
-version = "0.5.2"
+version = "0.5.3"
 authors = ["Nikolay Kim <fafhrd91@gmail.com>"]
 description = "Actix web is a simple, pragmatic and extremely fast web framework for Rust."
 readme = "README.md"
diff --git a/src/application.rs b/src/application.rs
index 411b738e7..5c7b3c93c 100644
--- a/src/application.rs
+++ b/src/application.rs
@@ -177,6 +177,13 @@ where
     ///
     /// State is shared with all resources within same application and
     /// could be accessed with `HttpRequest::state()` method.
+    ///
+    /// **Note**: http server accepts an application factory rather than
+    /// an application instance. Http server constructs an application
+    /// instance for each thread, thus application state must be constructed multiple
+    /// times. If you want to share state between different threads, a
+    /// shared object should be used, e.g. `Arc`. Application state does not
+    /// need to be `Send` and `Sync`.
     pub fn with_state(state: S) -> App<S> {
         App {
             parts: Some(ApplicationParts {