diff --git a/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json b/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json
index 8d9c014cd75..535034ef564 100644
--- a/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json
+++ b/api/openapi-spec/swagger.json
@@ -83779,7 +83779,7 @@
       "type": "boolean"
      },
      "progressDeadlineSeconds": {
-      "description": "The maximum time in seconds for a deployment to make progress before it is considered to be failed. The deployment controller will continue to process failed deployments and a condition with a ProgressDeadlineExceeded reason will be surfaced in the deployment status. Note that progress will not be estimated during the time a deployment is paused. This is not set by default.",
+      "description": "The maximum time in seconds for a deployment to make progress before it is considered to be failed. The deployment controller will continue to process failed deployments and a condition with a ProgressDeadlineExceeded reason will be surfaced in the deployment status. Note that progress will not be estimated during the time a deployment is paused. This is set to the max value of int32 (i.e. 2147483647) by default, which means \"no deadline\".",
       "type": "integer",
       "format": "int32"
      },
diff --git a/api/swagger-spec/extensions_v1beta1.json b/api/swagger-spec/extensions_v1beta1.json
index 7cb1b7a42c5..3a75c60e5d8 100644
--- a/api/swagger-spec/extensions_v1beta1.json
+++ b/api/swagger-spec/extensions_v1beta1.json
@@ -9756,7 +9756,7 @@
      "progressDeadlineSeconds": {
       "type": "integer",
       "format": "int32",
-      "description": "The maximum time in seconds for a deployment to make progress before it is considered to be failed. The deployment controller will continue to process failed deployments and a condition with a ProgressDeadlineExceeded reason will be surfaced in the deployment status. Note that progress will not be estimated during the time a deployment is paused. This is not set by default."
+      "description": "The maximum time in seconds for a deployment to make progress before it is considered to be failed. The deployment controller will continue to process failed deployments and a condition with a ProgressDeadlineExceeded reason will be surfaced in the deployment status. Note that progress will not be estimated during the time a deployment is paused. This is set to the max value of int32 (i.e. 2147483647) by default, which means \"no deadline\"."
      }
     }
    },
diff --git a/docs/api-reference/extensions/v1beta1/definitions.html b/docs/api-reference/extensions/v1beta1/definitions.html
index 5aac9105ad5..c4fa06d8a1e 100755
--- a/docs/api-reference/extensions/v1beta1/definitions.html
+++ b/docs/api-reference/extensions/v1beta1/definitions.html
@@ -4337,7 +4337,7 @@ When an object is created, the system will populate this list with the current s
 </tr>
 <tr>
 <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">progressDeadlineSeconds</p></td>
-<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">The maximum time in seconds for a deployment to make progress before it is considered to be failed. The deployment controller will continue to process failed deployments and a condition with a ProgressDeadlineExceeded reason will be surfaced in the deployment status. Note that progress will not be estimated during the time a deployment is paused. This is not set by default.</p></td>
+<td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">The maximum time in seconds for a deployment to make progress before it is considered to be failed. The deployment controller will continue to process failed deployments and a condition with a ProgressDeadlineExceeded reason will be surfaced in the deployment status. Note that progress will not be estimated during the time a deployment is paused. This is set to the max value of int32 (i.e. 2147483647) by default, which means "no deadline".</p></td>
 <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">false</p></td>
 <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"><p class="tableblock">integer (int32)</p></td>
 <td class="tableblock halign-left valign-top"></td>
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/api/extensions/v1beta1/generated.proto b/staging/src/k8s.io/api/extensions/v1beta1/generated.proto
index 3a87fbe5ec5..07a1d4ee840 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/api/extensions/v1beta1/generated.proto
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/api/extensions/v1beta1/generated.proto
@@ -353,8 +353,8 @@ message DeploymentSpec {
   // is considered to be failed. The deployment controller will continue to
   // process failed deployments and a condition with a ProgressDeadlineExceeded
   // reason will be surfaced in the deployment status. Note that progress will
-  // not be estimated during the time a deployment is paused. This is not set
-  // by default.
+  // not be estimated during the time a deployment is paused. This is set to
+  // the max value of int32 (i.e. 2147483647) by default, which means "no deadline".
   // +optional
   optional int32 progressDeadlineSeconds = 9;
 }
diff --git a/staging/src/k8s.io/api/extensions/v1beta1/types_swagger_doc_generated.go b/staging/src/k8s.io/api/extensions/v1beta1/types_swagger_doc_generated.go
index d261b424797..c9ffadec1e7 100644
--- a/staging/src/k8s.io/api/extensions/v1beta1/types_swagger_doc_generated.go
+++ b/staging/src/k8s.io/api/extensions/v1beta1/types_swagger_doc_generated.go
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ var map_DeploymentSpec = map[string]string{
 	"revisionHistoryLimit":    "The number of old ReplicaSets to retain to allow rollback. This is a pointer to distinguish between explicit zero and not specified.",
 	"paused":                  "Indicates that the deployment is paused and will not be processed by the deployment controller.",
 	"rollbackTo":              "DEPRECATED. The config this deployment is rolling back to. Will be cleared after rollback is done.",
-	"progressDeadlineSeconds": "The maximum time in seconds for a deployment to make progress before it is considered to be failed. The deployment controller will continue to process failed deployments and a condition with a ProgressDeadlineExceeded reason will be surfaced in the deployment status. Note that progress will not be estimated during the time a deployment is paused. This is not set by default.",
+	"progressDeadlineSeconds": "The maximum time in seconds for a deployment to make progress before it is considered to be failed. The deployment controller will continue to process failed deployments and a condition with a ProgressDeadlineExceeded reason will be surfaced in the deployment status. Note that progress will not be estimated during the time a deployment is paused. This is set to the max value of int32 (i.e. 2147483647) by default, which means \"no deadline\".",
 }
 
 func (DeploymentSpec) SwaggerDoc() map[string]string {