diff --git a/Doc/library/xml.rst b/Doc/library/xml.rst
index 9b8ba6b17c8..fb86b6f5564 100644
--- a/Doc/library/xml.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/xml.rst
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ decompression bomb         Safe             Safe              Safe             S
 2. :mod:`xml.dom.minidom` doesn't expand external entities and simply returns
    the unexpanded entity verbatim.
 3. :mod:`xmlrpclib` doesn't expand external entities and omits them.
-4. Since Python 3.8.0, external general entities are no longer processed by
-   default since Python.
+4. Since Python 3.7.1, external general entities are no longer processed by
+   default.
 
 
 billion laughs / exponential entity expansion