diff --git a/docs/releases/index.txt b/docs/releases/index.txt
index d4b408f182..e290360332 100644
--- a/docs/releases/index.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/index.txt
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ version.
 Final releases
 ==============
 
+Below are release notes through Django |version| and its minor releases. Newer
+versions of the documentation contain the release notes for any later releases.
+
 .. _development_release_notes:
 
 1.8 release