diff --git a/pep-0101.txt b/pep-0101.txt
index 5745fb027..97a67175f 100644
--- a/pep-0101.txt
+++ b/pep-0101.txt
@@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ How to Make A Release
         contains what purports to be an HTML-ized copy of the LICENSE
         file from the distribution.
 
+  ___ For a final release, edit the first paragraph of 
+      Doc/whatsnew/whatsnewXX.tex to include the actual release date;
+      e.g. "Python 2.3 was released on August 1, 2003."  
+      There's no need to edit this for alpha or beta releases.
+
   ___ For the next few hours, selectively merge stuff from trunk into
       branch.  For each change you see on the trunk (i.e. via the
       python-checkins mailing list), you need to decide whether the