diff --git a/docs/topics/settings.rst b/docs/topics/settings.rst
index 3006fb8b1..7cdfb8768 100644
--- a/docs/topics/settings.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/settings.rst
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ and settings set there should use the "spider" priority explicitly:
             super().update_settings(settings)
             settings.set("SOME_SETTING", "some value", priority="spider")
 
-.. versionadded:: VERSION
+.. versionadded:: 2.11
 
 It's also possible to modify the settings in the
 :meth:`~scrapy.Spider.from_crawler` method, e.g. based on :ref:`spider
diff --git a/docs/topics/spiders.rst b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
index 1ca7eda7b..20452d558 100644
--- a/docs/topics/spiders.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/spiders.rst
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ scrapy.Spider
        attributes in the new instance so they can be accessed later inside the
        spider's code.
 
-       .. versionchanged:: VERSION
+       .. versionchanged:: 2.11
 
            The settings in ``crawler.settings`` can now be modified in this
            method, which is handy if you want to modify them based on