diff --git a/docs/contributing/release-process.md b/docs/contributing/release-process.md
index 2a76c04234..ed898c77f3 100644
--- a/docs/contributing/release-process.md
+++ b/docs/contributing/release-process.md
@@ -215,12 +215,7 @@ Use the following instructions: https://github.com/cncf/k8s-conformance/blob/mas
 
 This step is only necessary for a first stable minor release (a ".0").
 
-Create a PR that updates the following documents:
-
-* Rotate the new version into the version matrix in both
-[releases.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/tree/master/docs/welcome/releases.md)
-and [README-ES.md](https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/tree/master/README-ES.md).
-* Remove the "has not been released yet" header in the version's release notes.
+Create a PR that removes the "has not been released yet" header in the version's release notes.
 
 ### Add link to release notes
 
diff --git a/docs/releases/1.28-NOTES.md b/docs/releases/1.28-NOTES.md
index 37dc2a2422..94c6891235 100644
--- a/docs/releases/1.28-NOTES.md
+++ b/docs/releases/1.28-NOTES.md
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 ## Release notes for kOps 1.28 series
 
-**⚠ kOps 1.28 has not been released yet! ⚠**
-
-This is a document to gather the release notes prior to the release.
-
 # Significant changes
 
 ## AWS
@@ -14,13 +10,11 @@ This is a document to gather the release notes prior to the release.
 
 * [metadata-proxy](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/tree/master/cluster/addons/metadata-proxy) is no longer deployed on GCP clusters for Kubernetes 1.29+.
 
-## Openstack
-
 # Breaking changes
 
 ## AWS
 
-* The `kops get assets --copy` command no longer sets object-level public-read ACLs in the destination fileRDoepository.
+* The `kops get assets --copy` command no longer sets object-level public-read ACLs in the destination fileRepository.
 
 ## Other breaking changes