diff --git a/docs/news.xml b/docs/news.xml
index c48869c552..aab812b259 100644
--- a/docs/news.xml
+++ b/docs/news.xml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
         <description>
             Allow querying the NIC interface capabilities for the
             availability of switchdev offloading (also known as
-            kernel-forward-plane-offload introduced in kernel 4.8).
+            kernel-forward-plane-offload).
         </description>
       </change>
     </section>