diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex
index 08ce67e0702..81725186759 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex
@@ -530,15 +530,16 @@ f()
 A new variable holding more detailed version information has been
 added to the \module{sys} module.  \code{sys.version_info} is a tuple
 \code{(\var{major}, \var{minor}, \var{micro}, \var{level},
-\var{serial})} For example, in 2.0a2 \code{sys.version_info} is
-\code{(1, 6, 0, 'alpha', 2)}.  \var{level} is a string such as
-\code{"alpha"}, \code{"beta"}, or \code{""} for a final release.
+\var{serial})} For example, in a hypothetical 2.0.1beta1,
+\code{sys.version_info} would be \code{(2, 0, 1, 'beta', 1)}.
+\var{level} is a string such as \code{"alpha"}, \code{"beta"}, or
+\code{""} for a final release.
 
 % ======================================================================
 \section{Extending/Embedding Changes}
 
 Some of the changes are under the covers, and will only be apparent to
-people writing C extension modules, or embedding a Python interpreter
+people writing C extension modules or embedding a Python interpreter
 in a larger application.  If you aren't dealing with Python's C API,
 you can safely skip this section.