diff --git a/docs/sitemaps.txt b/docs/sitemaps.txt
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@@ -2,8 +2,6 @@
 The sitemap framework
 =====================
 
-**New in Django development version**.
-
 Django comes with a high-level sitemap-generating framework that makes
 creating sitemap_ XML files easy.