diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 6feb26c4f25..0f7df0e5e91 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1304,7 +1304,7 @@ are always available.  They are listed here in alphabetical order.
       the second argument to be negative, permitting computation of modular
       inverses.
 
-   .. versionchanged:: 3.9
+   .. versionchanged:: 3.8
       Allow keyword arguments.  Formerly, only positional arguments were
       supported.