From ac8344b3eb7c8276050825b41e735158a3d3af25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas A Caswell <tcaswell@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2020 16:22:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Backport PR #16651: Docs: Change Python 2 note to past tense

---
 doc/_templates/sidebar_announcement.html | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/_templates/sidebar_announcement.html b/doc/_templates/sidebar_announcement.html
index 57a0f225a3b6..f8fa4d8a5efb 100644
--- a/doc/_templates/sidebar_announcement.html
+++ b/doc/_templates/sidebar_announcement.html
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <div class="sidebar-announcement">
   <p>Matplotlib 3.0 is Python 3 only.</p>
-  <p>For Python 2 support, Matplotlib 2.2.x will be continued as a LTS release
-      and updated with bugfixes until January 1, 2020.</p>
+  <p>Python 2 support has been dropped on January 1, 2020.</p>
+  <p>The last Python 2 compatible release is 2.2.5.</p>
 </div>