diff --git a/share/man/man7/development.7 b/share/man/man7/development.7
--- a/share/man/man7/development.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/development.7
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 .\"
 .\" $FreeBSD$
 .\"
-.Dd March 11, 2021
+.Dd March 17, 2021
 .Dt DEVELOPMENT 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -77,8 +77,8 @@
 all changes are first committed to CURRENT and then usually cherry-picked
 back to STABLE, which refers to Git branches such as
 .Ql stable/13 .
-Every few years the CURRENT branch is renamed to STABLE, and a new
-CURRENT is branched, with an incremented major version number.
+Every few years a new STABLE is branched from CURRENT,
+with an incremented major version number.
 Releases are then branched off STABLE and numbered with consecutive minor
 numbers.
 .Pp