diff --git a/build/mark-new-version.sh b/build/mark-new-version.sh
index 44c7eb2091c..1c445c0332f 100755
--- a/build/mark-new-version.sh
+++ b/build/mark-new-version.sh
@@ -92,8 +92,13 @@ fi
 echo "+++ Versioning documentation and examples"
 
 # Update the docs to match this version.
-$SED -ri -e "s/HEAD/${VERSION_MAJOR}.${VERSION_MINOR}.${VERSION_PATCH}/" docs/README.md
-$SED -ri -e "s/HEAD/${VERSION_MAJOR}.${VERSION_MINOR}.${VERSION_PATCH}/" examples/README.md
+DOCS_TO_EDIT=(docs/README.md examples/README.md)
+for DOC in "${DOCS_TO_EDIT[@]}"; do
+  $SED -ri \
+      -e "s/HEAD/${NEW_VERSION}/" \
+      -e "/<!-- BEGIN STRIP_FOR_RELEASE -->/,/<!-- END STRIP_FOR_RELEASE -->/d" \
+      "${DOC}"
+done
 
 # Update API descriptions to match this version.
 $SED -ri -e "s|(releases.k8s.io)/HEAD|\1/${NEW_VERSION}|" pkg/api/v[0-9]*/types.go
diff --git a/docs/README.md b/docs/README.md
index 1def0317607..859deba9001 100644
--- a/docs/README.md
+++ b/docs/README.md
@@ -1,12 +1,7 @@
-# Kubernetes Documentation
+# Kubernetes Documentation: v0.21.1
 
-**Note**
-This documentation is current for 0.21.0.
 
-Documentation for previous releases is available in their respective branches:
-   * [v0.19.0](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/tree/master/release-0.19.0/docs)
-   * [v0.18.1](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/tree/release-0.18/docs)
-   * [v0.17.1](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/tree/release-0.17/docs)
+## Where to start
 
 * The [User's guide](user-guide.md) is for anyone who wants to run programs and
   services on an existing Kubernetes cluster.
diff --git a/examples/README.md b/examples/README.md
index fc6954a1af1..67eebfae7df 100644
--- a/examples/README.md
+++ b/examples/README.md
@@ -1,14 +1,10 @@
-# Examples
+# Kubernetes Examples: v0.21.1
 
-This directory contains a number of different examples of how to run applications with Kubernetes.
 
-**Note**
-This documentation is current for 0.21.0.  
+##
 
-Examples for previous releases is available in their respective branches:
-   * [v0.19.0](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/tree/master/release-0.19.0/examples)
-   * [v0.18.1](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/tree/release-0.18/examples)
-   * [v0.17.1](https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes/tree/release-0.17/examples)
+This directory contains a number of different examples of how to run
+applications with Kubernetes.
 
 
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