diff --git a/doc/markdown.rst b/doc/markdown.rst
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--- a/doc/markdown.rst
+++ b/doc/markdown.rst
@@ -8,21 +8,22 @@ Markdown support
 `Markdown <https://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/>`__ is a lightweight markup language with a simplistic plain
 text formatting syntax.
 It exists in many syntactically different *flavors*.
-To support Markdown-based documentation, Sphinx can use `CommonMark-py <https://github.com/rtfd/CommonMark-py>`__, a
-Python package for parsing the `CommonMark <http://commonmark.org/>`__ flavor. In addition, Sphinx uses
-`recommonmark <http://recommonmark.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html>`__, a Docutils bridge to CommonMark.
+To support Markdown-based documentation, Sphinx can use
+`recommonmark <http://recommonmark.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html>`__.
+recommonmark is a Docutils bridge to `CommonMark-py <https://github.com/rtfd/CommonMark-py>`__, a
+Python package for parsing the `CommonMark <http://commonmark.org/>`__ Markdown flavor.
 
 
 Configuration
 -------------
 
-To configure your Sphinx project for markdown support, proceed as follows:
+To configure your Sphinx project for Markdown support, proceed as follows:
 
-#. Install CommonMark version **0.5.4** and recommonmark:
+#. Install recommonmark:
 
    ::
 
-      pip install commonmark==0.5.4 recommonmark
+      pip install recommonmark
 
 #. Add the Markdown parser to the ``source_parsers`` configuration variable in your Sphinx configuration file: