diff --git a/base/docs/basedocs.jl b/base/docs/basedocs.jl
index 7a1f7fb984ce3..b5b5abb88e0d9 100644
--- a/base/docs/basedocs.jl
+++ b/base/docs/basedocs.jl
@@ -3293,6 +3293,9 @@ unused and delete the entire benchmark code).
     `donotdelete(1+1)`, no add instruction needs to be executed at runtime and
     the code is semantically equivalent to `donotdelete(2).`
 
+!!! compat "Julia 1.8"
+    This method was added in Julia 1.8.
+
 # Examples
 
 ```julia