diff --git a/Documentation/contributing/release/backports.rst b/Documentation/contributing/release/backports.rst
index f4eacb4ea804..fc2ea0db5d19 100644
--- a/Documentation/contributing/release/backports.rst
+++ b/Documentation/contributing/release/backports.rst
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Running the CI against the pull request
 
 To validate a cross-section of various tests against the PRs, backport PRs
 should be validated in the CI by running all CI targets. This can be triggered
-by adding a comment to the PR with exactly the text ``never-tell-me-the-odds``.
+by adding a comment to the PR with exactly the text ``test-backport-x.x``, where ``x.x`` is the target version.
 The comment must not contain any other characters.
 
 After the backports are merged
diff --git a/Documentation/contributing/testing/ci.rst b/Documentation/contributing/testing/ci.rst
index 4e635aad395d..6a16a5a54bd2 100644
--- a/Documentation/contributing/testing/ci.rst
+++ b/Documentation/contributing/testing/ci.rst
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ illustrating which subset of tests the job runs.
 |                                                                                                                | test-gke          |                    |
 +----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------------------+--------------------+
 
-For Backport PRs, the phrase ``never-tell-me-the-odds`` should be used to
+For Backport PRs, the phrase ``test-backport-x.x`` (with ``x.x`` being the target Cilium version) should be used to
 trigger all of the above jobs which are marked as required to validate changes
 to existing releases.