diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
index b3f797f06f3..0d848a8de37 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.6.rst
@@ -624,10 +624,6 @@ Notable changes in the :mod:`asyncio` module since Python 3.5.0:
   method to get the current exception handler.
   (Contributed by Yury Selivanov.)
 
-* New :func:`~asyncio.timeout` context manager to simplify timeouts
-  handling code.
-  (Contributed by Andrew Svetlov.)
-
 * New :meth:`StreamReader.readuntil() <asyncio.StreamReader.readuntil>`
   method to read data from the stream until a separator bytes
   sequence appears.