diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index a67ce2d8d..137221276 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ Fixed bugs:
* TarEntry's constructor with a File and a String arg didn't
normalize the name.
- * Between 1.8.4 and 1.9.5 TarInputStream started to parse file
+ * Between 1.8.4 and 1.9.0 TarInputStream started to parse file
names using the platform's default encoding rather than as ASCII.
This has been a breaking change that has never been marked as such
(in fact it went unnoticed). In order to allow