diff --git a/History.md b/History.md
index 5ddf711d..3ffe11aa 100644
--- a/History.md
+++ b/History.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ Release date: 2018-03-23
 
 ### Changed
 
-* Drivers are now expected to return visible text more in line with the WebDriver spec for visible text
+* Visibile text whitespace is no longer fully normalized in favor of being more in line with the WebDriver spec for visible text
 * Drivers are expected to close extra windows when resetting the session
 * Selenium driver supports Date/Time when filling in date/time/datetime-local inputs
 * `current_url` returns the url for the top level browsing context
diff --git a/lib/capybara/node/matchers.rb b/lib/capybara/node/matchers.rb
index 5392d643..3a819342 100644
--- a/lib/capybara/node/matchers.rb
+++ b/lib/capybara/node/matchers.rb
@@ -622,10 +622,6 @@ module Capybara
       # Checks if the page or current node has the given text content,
       # ignoring any HTML tags.
       #
-      # Whitespaces are normalized in both node's text and passed text parameter.
-      # Note that whitespace isn't normalized in passed regexp as normalizing whitespace
-      # in regexp isn't easy and doesn't seem to be worth it.
-      #
       # By default it will check if the text occurs at least once,
       # but a different number can be specified.
       #