diff --git a/docs/releases/5.0.txt b/docs/releases/5.0.txt
index e45776f4f2e21..d0b7b1612fec5 100644
--- a/docs/releases/5.0.txt
+++ b/docs/releases/5.0.txt
@@ -133,10 +133,11 @@ More options for declaring field choices
 ----------------------------------------
 
 :attr:`.Field.choices` *(for model fields)* and :attr:`.ChoiceField.choices`
-*(for form fields)* use a list of 2-tuples as the canonical form for declaring
-choices values. :ref:`field-choices-enum-types`, introduced in Django 3.0,
-required use of the ``.choices`` attribute to provide the choices in the
-expected form::
+*(for form fields)* allow for more flexibility when declaring their values. In
+previous versions of Django, ``choices`` should either be a list of 2-tuples,
+or an :ref:`field-choices-enum-types` subclass, but the latter required
+accessing the ``.choices`` attribute to provide the values in the expected
+form::
 
     from django.db import models
 
@@ -154,9 +155,9 @@ expected form::
         medal = models.CharField(..., choices=Medal.choices)
         sport = models.CharField(..., choices=SPORT_CHOICES)
 
-Django 5.0 allows providing a mapping instead of an iterable and also no longer
-requires ``.choices`` to be used directly to expand :ref:`enumeration types
-<field-choices-enum-types>` into canonical form::
+Django 5.0 supports providing a mapping instead of an iterable, and also no
+longer requires ``.choices`` to be used directly to expand :ref:`enumeration
+types <field-choices-enum-types>`::
 
     from django.db import models
 
@@ -174,8 +175,8 @@ requires ``.choices`` to be used directly to expand :ref:`enumeration types
         medal = models.CharField(..., choices=Medal)  # Using `.choices` not required.
         sport = models.CharField(..., choices=SPORT_CHOICES)
 
-Under the hood the provided choices are normalized into the canonical form
-whenever the ``choices`` value is updated.
+Under the hood the provided ``choices`` are normalized into a list of 2-tuples
+as the canonical form whenever the ``choices`` value is updated.
 
 Minor features
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