diff --git a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
index 00e20b151a..fce022cff9 100644
--- a/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
+++ b/docs/internals/deprecation.txt
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ details on these changes.
 * Support for the pre-Django 3.1 user sessions (that use the SHA-1 algorithm)
   will be removed.
 
-* The ``get_request`` argument for
+* The ``get_response`` argument for
   ``django.utils.deprecation.MiddlewareMixin.__init__()`` will be required and
   won't accept ``None``.
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/4.0.txt b/docs/releases/4.0.txt
index 54de681a81..4767bdf7bf 100644
--- a/docs/releases/4.0.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/4.0.txt
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ to remove usage of these features.
 * Support for the pre-Django 3.1 user sessions (that use the SHA-1 algorithm)
   is removed.
 
-* The ``get_request`` argument for
+* The ``get_response`` argument for
   ``django.utils.deprecation.MiddlewareMixin.__init__()`` is required and
   doesn't accept ``None``.