diff --git a/docs.xml b/docs.xml
index 1205c31cc..c515ef498 100644
--- a/docs.xml
+++ b/docs.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
         Build documentation - XDocs and Javadoc.
         For building XDocs, edit xdocs/**/*.xml first.
         If ../jakarta-site2 does not exist, set -Dsite.dir=... for it,
-        or just use -Dvelocity.dir=.../velocity-4.x if you have downloaded Velocity somewhere.
+        or just use -Dvelocity.dir=.../velocity-1.4.x if you have downloaded Velocity somewhere.
 
         XXX for no apparent reason, your CWD must be the main Ant source dir, or this will fail:
         .../docs.xml:64: org.apache.velocity.exception.ResourceNotFoundException: Unable to find resource './site.vsl'