diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1903.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1903.xml
index 9ef5d01c5a9..ceb26ba5aff 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1903.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/release-notes/rl-1903.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
    <listitem>
     <para>
     The default Python 3 interpreter is now CPython 3.7 instead of CPython 3.6.
-    <para />
+    </para>
    </listitem>
   </itemizedlist>
  </section>