diff --git a/Documentation/About/Limitations.md b/Documentation/About/Limitations.md
index 478664fb0..98eff7d46 100644
--- a/Documentation/About/Limitations.md
+++ b/Documentation/About/Limitations.md
@@ -10,6 +10,10 @@ In versions 2.1.2 and earlier, the configuration files are limited to 1024
 characters per line. This limitation was increased to 16384 characters in
 MaxScale 2.1.3.
 
+In versions 2.2.12 and earlier, the section names in the configuration files
+were limited to 49 characters. This limitation was increased to 1023 characters
+in MaxScale 2.2.13.
+
 ## Security limitiations
 
 ### MariaDB 10.2
diff --git a/server/inih/ini.c b/server/inih/ini.c
index ac185fb55..68614df2d 100644
--- a/server/inih/ini.c
+++ b/server/inih/ini.c
@@ -17,8 +17,8 @@ http://code.google.com/p/inih/
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #endif
 
-#define MAX_SECTION 50
-#define MAX_NAME 50
+#define MAX_SECTION 1024
+#define MAX_NAME 1024
 
 /* Strip whitespace chars off end of given string, in place. Return s. */
 static char* rstrip(char* s)