diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 3474216..90a2370 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1311,7 +1311,7 @@
       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.