diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index fc3cfd9e8..c5b75aae2 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -469,6 +469,10 @@ Deprecation removals
     has now been removed.
     (:issue:`5719`)
 
+-   The ``scrapy.utils.boto.is_botocore()`` function, deprecated in Scrapy 2.4,
+    has now been removed.
+    (:issue:`5719`)
+
 
 Deprecations
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~