diff --git a/docs/design/1600-prometheus-relabel-external-cache.md b/docs/design/1600-prometheus-relabel-external-cache.md
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@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ The alternative is to do nothing as we deem this improvement unnecessary.
 
 ## Compatibility
 
-This proposal offer to deprecate for a couple of release the old way to configure the in-memory cache, then release+2 drop the old way. Doing so allow to migrate the settings to the correct block.
+This proposal offer to deprecate the old way to configure the in-memory cache and drop it in the next major release (e.g: 2.0). Doing so allow to migrate the settings to the correct block.
 
 ## Implementation