diff --git a/docs/releasenotes/7.0.0.rst b/docs/releasenotes/7.0.0.rst
index 4fb6773c4..a6d4a6d35 100644
--- a/docs/releasenotes/7.0.0.rst
+++ b/docs/releasenotes/7.0.0.rst
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ Implicitly closing the image's underlying file in ``Image.__del__`` has been rem
 Use a context manager or call ``Image.close()`` instead to close the file in a
 deterministic way.
 
-Deprecated:
+Previous method:
 
 .. code-block:: python