diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/developers/cvs.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/developers/cvs.xml
index d4886c9b96..cf4d1e2ddf 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/developers/cvs.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/htdocs/developers/cvs.xml
@@ -24,8 +24,11 @@
     <p>In June 2008, development of the base system moved to a different
       version control system, <a href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">Subversion</a>
       (SVN for short).  The <a href="http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/base/">web
-      interface</a> is available for browsing the repository.  All changes are
-      also exported back to the CVS repository.</p>
+      interface</a> is available for browsing the repository.  All changes
+      to the existing live branches (stable/9 and stable/8) are
+      also exported back to the legacy CVS repository, however the
+      CVS repositories are deprecated, and so existing users of them
+      should move away from doing so.</p>
 
     <p>In May 2012, the FreeBSD Documentation Project moved from CVS
       to Subversion.  Unlike the base system, the documentation SVN
@@ -38,7 +41,7 @@
     Subversion.  There is a <a
     href="http://svnweb.FreeBSD.org/ports/">web interface</a> for
     browsing the repository.  The Ports tree is also exported back
-    to the CVS repository.
+    to the legacy CVS repository.
     It will cease to be exported early 2013.</p>