diff --git a/Include/pyexpat.h b/Include/pyexpat.h
index 9824d099c3df7d0..e0cff33b53227ae 100644
--- a/Include/pyexpat.h
+++ b/Include/pyexpat.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 
 /* note: you must import expat.h before importing this module! */
 
-#define PyExpat_CAPI_MAGIC  "pyexpat.expat_CAPI 1.1"
+#define PyExpat_CAPI_MAGIC  "pyexpat.expat_CAPI 1.2"
 #define PyExpat_CAPSULE_NAME "pyexpat.expat_CAPI"
 
 struct PyExpat_CAPI
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2024-02-18-03-14-40.gh-issue-115398.tzvxH8.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2024-02-18-03-14-40.gh-issue-115398.tzvxH8.rst
index 97b23936928d916..a40fcd35ef99ae4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2024-02-18-03-14-40.gh-issue-115398.tzvxH8.rst
+++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Security/2024-02-18-03-14-40.gh-issue-115398.tzvxH8.rst
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 Allow controlling Expat >=2.6.0 reparse deferral (CVE-2023-52425) by adding
 five new methods:
 
-* ``xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser.flush``
-* ``xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLPullParser.flush``
-* ``xml.parsers.expat.xmlparser.GetReparseDeferralEnabled``
-* ``xml.parsers.expat.xmlparser.SetReparseDeferralEnabled``
-* ``xml.sax.expatreader.ExpatParser.flush``
+* :meth:`xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLParser.flush`
+* :meth:`xml.etree.ElementTree.XMLPullParser.flush`
+* :meth:`xml.parsers.expat.xmlparser.GetReparseDeferralEnabled`
+* :meth:`xml.parsers.expat.xmlparser.SetReparseDeferralEnabled`
+* :meth:`xml.sax.expatreader.ExpatParser.flush`