diff --git a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
index b4adc02c0b4..1c8aafd46cc 100644
--- a/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/subprocess.rst
@@ -238,11 +238,9 @@ default values. The arguments that are most commonly needed are:
 
    .. note::
 
-      The *universal_newlines* feature is supported only if Python is built
-      with universal newline support (the default).  Also, the newlines
-      attribute of the file objects :attr:`Popen.stdin`, :attr:`Popen.stdout`
-      and :attr:`Popen.stderr` are not updated by the
-      :meth:`Popen.communicate` method.
+      The newlines attribute of the file objects :attr:`Popen.stdin`,
+      :attr:`Popen.stdout` and :attr:`Popen.stderr` are not updated by
+      the :meth:`Popen.communicate` method.
 
    If *shell* is ``True``, the specified command will be executed through
    the shell.  This can be useful if you are using Python primarily for the
diff --git a/Lib/subprocess.py b/Lib/subprocess.py
index 1a21455a9b3..7cfe5df30d7 100644
--- a/Lib/subprocess.py
+++ b/Lib/subprocess.py
@@ -108,10 +108,9 @@ If universal_newlines is true, the file objects stdout and stderr are
 opened as a text files, but lines may be terminated by any of '\n',
 the Unix end-of-line convention, '\r', the old Macintosh convention or
 '\r\n', the Windows convention.  All of these external representations
-are seen as '\n' by the Python program.  Note: This feature is only
-available if Python is built with universal newline support (the
-default).  Also, the newlines attribute of the file objects stdout,
-stdin and stderr are not updated by the communicate() method.
+are seen as '\n' by the Python program.  Also, the newlines attribute
+of the file objects stdout, stdin and stderr are not updated by the
+communicate() method.
 
 The startupinfo and creationflags, if given, will be passed to the
 underlying CreateProcess() function.  They can specify things such as