diff --git a/WHATSNEW b/WHATSNEW
index 88bb3d9b7..ca1bf7998 100644
--- a/WHATSNEW
+++ b/WHATSNEW
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Changes that could break older environments:
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 * Use org.apache.log4j.Logger instead of org.apache.log4j.Category.
-  Category has been deprecated for ~2 years and is been removed from
+  Category has been deprecated for ~2 years and has been removed from
   the log4j code.  Logger was introduced in log4j 1.2 so users of
   log4j 1.1 and log4j 1.0 need to upgrade to a newer version of log4j.
   Bugzilla Report 31951.