diff --git a/pkg/version/base.go b/pkg/version/base.go
index 676d51d3..edfa5e04 100644
--- a/pkg/version/base.go
+++ b/pkg/version/base.go
@@ -24,15 +24,9 @@ package version
 // information from git.
 //
 // If you are looking at these fields in the git tree, they look
-// strange. They are modified on the fly by the build process. The
+// strange. They are set by the build process with ldflags -X. The
 // in-tree values are dummy values used for "git archive", which also
 // works for GitHub tar downloads.
-//
-// When releasing a new Kubernetes version, this file is updated by
-// build/mark_new_version.sh to reflect the new version, and then a
-// git annotated tag (using format vX.Y where X == Major version and Y
-// == Minor version) is created to point to the commit that updates
-// pkg/version/base.go
 var (
 	// TODO: Deprecate gitMajor and gitMinor, use only gitVersion
 	// instead. First step in deprecation, keep the fields but make