diff --git a/ANNOUNCE b/ANNOUNCE
index 2cf3d9b2b1..e7e88fb94b 100644
--- a/ANNOUNCE
+++ b/ANNOUNCE
@@ -62,8 +62,8 @@ Prebuilt binaries (rpms for Linux distributions, Mac OS X and Windows
 installers) should soon be available at
 	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.5.5/
 
-If you already have the LyX 1.5.2 sources, you may want to apply one
-of the following patches instead
+If you already have the sources of the previous release, you may want to apply
+one of the following patches instead
 	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.5.gz
 	ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/patch-1.5.5.bz2