diff --git a/docs/settings.txt b/docs/settings.txt
index 0d5abe4a10..734a9ef383 100644
--- a/docs/settings.txt
+++ b/docs/settings.txt
@@ -440,6 +440,8 @@ Whether to use a TLS (secure) connection when talking to the SMTP server.
 FILE_CHARSET
 ------------
 
+**New in Django development version**
+
 Default: ``'utf-8'``
 
 The character encoding used to decode any files read from disk. This includes