diff --git a/CHANGES/5494.bugfix b/CHANGES/5494.bugfix
index 2f4ccf21103..449b6bdf3d6 100644
--- a/CHANGES/5494.bugfix
+++ b/CHANGES/5494.bugfix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 Fixed the multipart POST requests processing to always release file
 descriptors for the ``tempfile.Temporaryfile``-created
-`_io.BufferedRandom` instances of files sent within multipart request
+``_io.BufferedRandom`` instances of files sent within multipart request
 bodies via HTTP POST requests.