diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index cdc2d7dda..78f9db416 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ S3method(as.matrix, data.table)
 #S3method(cbind, data.table)
 #S3method(rbind, data.table)
 export(.rbind.data.table)
-S3method(split, data.table)
 S3method(dim, data.table)
 S3method(dimnames, data.table)
 S3method("dimnames<-", data.table)
@@ -93,6 +92,8 @@ S3method(Ops, data.table)
 
 S3method(anyDuplicated, data.table)
 
+export(split.data.table)
+S3method(split, data.table)
 export(melt)
 export(melt.data.table)
 S3method(melt, data.table)
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 2aff43d11..2d1777de6 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ Warning message:
   truncated to 3.
 ```
 
+2. `split.data.table` method is now properly exported, [#2920](https://github.com/Rdatatable/data.table/issues/2920). But we don't recommend it because `split` copies all the pieces into new memory.
+
 
 ### Changes in v1.11.4  (on CRAN 27 May 2018)