diff --git a/docs/releases/4.2.txt b/docs/releases/4.2.txt
index 7d7848708d..aeda95d7af 100644
--- a/docs/releases/4.2.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/4.2.txt
@@ -523,7 +523,7 @@ During the deprecation period string literals will be attempted to be JSON
 decoded and a warning will be emitted on success that points at passing
 non-encoded forms instead.
 
-Code that use to pass JSON encoded string literals::
+Code that used to pass JSON encoded string literals::
 
     Document.objects.bulk_create(
         Document(data=Value("null")),