diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
index bb6730c073e..dacf04102ac 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.12.rst
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
    This saves the maintainer the effort of going through the Mercurial log
    when researching a change.
 
-This article explains the new features in Python 3.12, compared to 3.10.
+This article explains the new features in Python 3.12, compared to 3.11.
 
 For full details, see the :ref:`changelog <changelog>`.