diff --git a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
index 8dbe249fa..9988ab18b 100644
--- a/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
+++ b/docs/topics/downloader-middleware.rst
@@ -834,8 +834,6 @@ RetryMiddleware
 
 Failed pages are collected on the scraping process and rescheduled at the
 end, once the spider has finished crawling all regular (non failed) pages.
-Once there are no more failed pages to retry, this middleware sends a signal
-(retry_complete), so other extensions could connect to that signal.
 
 The :class:`RetryMiddleware` can be configured through the following
 settings (see the settings documentation for more info):
diff --git a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/retry.py b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/retry.py
index 07e979628..dbc605a4c 100644
--- a/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/retry.py
+++ b/scrapy/downloadermiddlewares/retry.py
@@ -7,9 +7,7 @@ RETRY_TIMES - how many times to retry a failed page
 RETRY_HTTP_CODES - which HTTP response codes to retry
 
 Failed pages are collected on the scraping process and rescheduled at the end,
-once the spider has finished crawling all regular (non failed) pages. Once
-there is no more failed pages to retry this middleware sends a signal
-(retry_complete), so other extensions could connect to that signal.
+once the spider has finished crawling all regular (non failed) pages.
 """
 import logging