diff --git a/solr/CHANGES.txt b/solr/CHANGES.txt
index ef91ba3ec03..e5d19f5688f 100644
--- a/solr/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/solr/CHANGES.txt
@@ -129,8 +129,7 @@ Upgrade Notes
   be set to -1 during collection creation to fall back to the old behavior of unlimited maxShardsPerNode when using
   autoscaling policy.
 
-* SOLR-12861: Added a Solr factory for ByteBuffersDirectory, which will replace deprecated RAMDirectory in
-  a future version of Solr.
+* SOLR-12861: Added a Solr factory for ByteBuffersDirectory, which will replace deprecated RAMDirectory in Solr 9.0.
 
 New Features
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