diff --git a/docs/about/deprecated.rst b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
index 63b46fd520..4a3c302962 100644
--- a/docs/about/deprecated.rst
+++ b/docs/about/deprecated.rst
@@ -24,12 +24,6 @@ should exclusively use a non-deprecated machine type, with use of the most
 recent version highly recommended. Non-versioned machine types follow the
 general feature deprecation policy.
 
-Prior to the 2.10.0 release there was no official policy on how
-long features would be deprecated prior to their removal, nor
-any documented list of which features were deprecated. Thus
-any features deprecated prior to 2.10.0 will be treated as if
-they were first deprecated in the 2.10.0 release.
-
 What follows is a list of all features currently marked as
 deprecated.