diff --git a/doc/whats_new.rst b/doc/whats_new.rst
index 61f9194888576b0577bb579821da1c9013662c2d..9ead1c7a12e291633d8eb995ad453e75805d6e85 100644
--- a/doc/whats_new.rst
+++ b/doc/whats_new.rst
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ Changelog
    - Fixes in :class:`decomposition.ProbabilisticPCA` score function by Wei Li.
 
    - Fixed feature importance computation in
-     :ref:`ensemble.gradient_boosting`.
+     :ref:`gradient_boosting`.
 
 API changes summary
 -------------------