diff --git a/docs/content/meta/release-notes.md b/docs/content/meta/release-notes.md
index 7bdd60a06..4cb83ffcb 100644
--- a/docs/content/meta/release-notes.md
+++ b/docs/content/meta/release-notes.md
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ weight: 10
 * Paginator now also supports page groups. [1274](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/1274)
 * `page.HasMenuCurrent()` and `node.HasMenuCurrent()` now work correctly in multi-level nested menus.
 * Several new information elements have been added to `Page` and `Node`:
-	*  `RuneCount` : This may be a good alternative to `WordCount` for Japanese and other CJK languages where a word-split by spaces makes no sense. [1266](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/1266)
+sense. [1266](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/1266)
 	* `RawContent`: Raw Markdown as a string. One use case may be of embedding remarkjs.com slides.
 	* The new `IsHome` tells the truth about whether you're on the home page or not.
 * Hugo now supports GitHub-flavoured markdown code fences for highlighting for `md`-files (Blackfriday rendered markdown) and `mmark` files (MMark rendered markdown). [362] (https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/362)[1258](https://github.com/spf13/hugo/issues/1258)
diff --git a/docs/content/templates/variables.md b/docs/content/templates/variables.md
index a5e787b5c..8152dba6f 100644
--- a/docs/content/templates/variables.md
+++ b/docs/content/templates/variables.md
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ matter, content or derived from file location.
 **.NextInSection** Pointer to the following content within the same section (based on pub date)<br>
 **.FuzzyWordCount** The approximate number of words in the content.<br>
 **.WordCount** The number of words in the content.<br>
-**.RuneCount** The number of [runes](http://blog.golang.org/strings) in the content, excluding any whitespace. This may be a good alternative to `.WordCount`  for Japanese and other CJK languages where a word-split by spaces makes no sense.
 **.ReadingTime** The estimated time it takes to read the content in minutes.<br>
 **.Weight** Assigned weight (in the front matter) to this content, used in sorting.<br>
 **.RawContent** Raw Markdown content without the metadata header. Useful with [remarkjs.com](http://remarkjs.com)<br>