diff --git a/java/ql/lib/CHANGELOG.md b/java/ql/lib/CHANGELOG.md
index 365117374e6..07b324f259c 100644
--- a/java/ql/lib/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/java/ql/lib/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 ### New Features
 
 * Kotlin support is now out of beta, and generally available
-* Kotlin versions up to 2.0.2\ *x* are now supported.
+* Kotlin versions up to 2.0.2*x* are now supported.
 
 ### Minor Analysis Improvements
 
diff --git a/java/ql/lib/change-notes/released/2.0.0.md b/java/ql/lib/change-notes/released/2.0.0.md
index c78ae3e78e3..3f451d0e5bb 100644
--- a/java/ql/lib/change-notes/released/2.0.0.md
+++ b/java/ql/lib/change-notes/released/2.0.0.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 ### New Features
 
 * Kotlin support is now out of beta, and generally available
-* Kotlin versions up to 2.0.2\ *x* are now supported.
+* Kotlin versions up to 2.0.2*x* are now supported.
 
 ### Minor Analysis Improvements
 
diff --git a/python/ql/lib/CHANGELOG.md b/python/ql/lib/CHANGELOG.md
index 0b41146d493..382efff551c 100644
--- a/python/ql/lib/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/python/ql/lib/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 ### Minor Analysis Improvements
 
-* Additional modelling has been added to detect cookie writes from direct writes to the `Set-Cookie` header have been added for several web frameworks.
+* Additional modelling to detect direct writes to the `Set-Cookie` header has been added for several web frameworks.
 
 ## 1.0.3
 
diff --git a/python/ql/lib/change-notes/released/1.0.4.md b/python/ql/lib/change-notes/released/1.0.4.md
index 267019190ea..9da90a6cc33 100644
--- a/python/ql/lib/change-notes/released/1.0.4.md
+++ b/python/ql/lib/change-notes/released/1.0.4.md
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 
 ### Minor Analysis Improvements
 
-* Additional modelling has been added to detect cookie writes from direct writes to the `Set-Cookie` header have been added for several web frameworks.
+* Additional modelling to detect direct writes to the `Set-Cookie` header has been added for several web frameworks.