diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index b244949615..9ba33e6a14 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -206,9 +206,7 @@ Issues of note:
    clone two separate git-htmldocs and git-manpages repositories next
    to the clone of git itself.
 
-   The minimum supported version of docbook-xsl is 1.73.
-   It has been reported that docbook-xsl version 1.73 is buggy; it needs
-   the patch in contrib/patches/docbook-xsl-manpages-charmap.patch
+   The minimum supported version of docbook-xsl is 1.74.
 
    Users attempting to build the documentation on Cygwin may need to ensure
    that the /etc/xml/catalog file looks something like this: