diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex
index 0a771cc607f..2341d342b2c 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew20.tex
@@ -914,13 +914,11 @@ the final module comes from code originally
 implemented by Fred Drake as \file{Tools/idle/BrowserControl.py},
 and adapted for the standard library by Fred.)
 
-\item{\module{winreg} and \module{_winreg}:} An interface to the
+\item{\module{_winreg}:} An interface to the
 Windows registry.  \module{_winreg} is an adaptation of functions that
 have been part of PythonWin since 1995, but has now been added to the core 
-distribution, and enhanced to support Unicode.  \module{winreg} is an
-object-oriented API on top of the \module{_winreg} module.
-\module{_winreg} was written by Bill Tutt and Mark Hammond, and \module{winreg}
-was designed by Thomas Heller and implemented by Paul Prescod.
+distribution, and enhanced to support Unicode.  
+\module{_winreg} was written by Bill Tutt and Mark Hammond.
 
 \item{\module{zipfile}:} A module for reading and writing ZIP-format
 archives.  These are archives produced by \program{PKZIP} on