diff --git a/Shorewall/manpages/shorewall-policy.xml b/Shorewall/manpages/shorewall-policy.xml
index 9a558ae94..43cba98de 100644
--- a/Shorewall/manpages/shorewall-policy.xml
+++ b/Shorewall/manpages/shorewall-policy.xml
@@ -108,13 +108,6 @@
               omitted for this policy.</para>
             </listitem>
 
-            <listitem>
-              <para>The name of an action (requires that USE_ACTIONS=Yes in
-              <ulink url="shorewall.conf.html">shorewall.conf</ulink>(5)).
-              That action will be invoked before the policy is
-              enforced.</para>
-            </listitem>
-
             <listitem>
               <para>The name of a macro. The rules in that macro will be
               applied before the policy is enforced. This does not require
@@ -123,8 +116,6 @@
           </orderedlist>
 
           <blockquote>
-            <programlisting></programlisting>
-
             <para>Possible policies are:</para>
           </blockquote>
 
diff --git a/Shorewall/manpages/shorewall.conf.xml b/Shorewall/manpages/shorewall.conf.xml
index dbb58787a..65e757d84 100644
--- a/Shorewall/manpages/shorewall.conf.xml
+++ b/Shorewall/manpages/shorewall.conf.xml
@@ -140,9 +140,9 @@
           REJECT policies was specified in the file
           /usr/share/shorewall/actions.std.</para>
 
-          <para>To allow for default rules to be applied when USE_ACTIONS=No,
-          the DROP_DEFAULT, REJECT_DEFAULT, ACCEPT_DEFAULT, QUEUE_DEFAULT and
-          NFQUEUE_DEFAULT options have been added.</para>
+          <para>In Shorewall 4.4.0, the DROP_DEFAULT, REJECT_DEFAULT,
+          ACCEPT_DEFAULT, QUEUE_DEFAULT and NFQUEUE_DEFAULT options were
+          added.</para>
 
           <para>DROP_DEFAULT describes the rules to be applied before a
           connection request is dropped by a DROP policy; REJECT_DEFAULT
@@ -174,10 +174,6 @@
             <member>NFQUEUE_DEFAULT="None"</member>
           </simplelist>
 
-          <para>If USE_ACTIONS=Yes, then these values refer to action.Drop and
-          action.Reject respectively. If USE_ACTIONS=No, then these values
-          refer to macro.Drop and macro.Reject.</para>
-
           <para>If you set the value of either option to "None" then no
           default action will be used and the default action or macro must be
           specified in <ulink
diff --git a/Shorewall6/manpages/shorewall6-policy.xml b/Shorewall6/manpages/shorewall6-policy.xml
index c7ef084a1..6428ed7c0 100644
--- a/Shorewall6/manpages/shorewall6-policy.xml
+++ b/Shorewall6/manpages/shorewall6-policy.xml
@@ -109,22 +109,12 @@
             </listitem>
 
             <listitem>
-              <para>The name of an action (requires that USE_ACTIONS=Yes in
-              <ulink url="shorewall6.conf.html">shorewall6.conf</ulink>(5)).
-              That action will be invoked before the policy is
-              enforced.</para>
-            </listitem>
-
-            <listitem>
-              <para>The name of a macro. The rules in that macro will be
-              applied before the policy is enforced. This does not require
-              USE_ACTIONS=Yes.</para>
+              <para>The name of an action. That action will be invoked before
+              the policy is enforced.</para>
             </listitem>
           </orderedlist>
 
           <blockquote>
-            <programlisting></programlisting>
-
             <para>Possible policies are:</para>
           </blockquote>
 
@@ -322,10 +312,10 @@
     shorewall6-ipsec(5), shorewall6-maclist(5), shorewall6-masq(5),
     shorewall6-nat(5), shorewall6-netmap(5),
     shoewall6-netmap(5),shorewall6-params(5), shorewall6-policy(5),
-    shorewall6-providers(5), shorewall6-proxyarp(5),
-    shorewall6-rtrules(5), shorewall6-routestopped(5),
-    shorewall6-rules(5), shorewall6.conf(5), shorewall6-secmarks(5),
-    shorewall6-tcclasses(5), shorewall6-tcdevices(5), shorewall6-tcrules(5),
-    shorewall6-tos(5), shorewall6-tunnels(5), shorewall6-zones(5)</para>
+    shorewall6-providers(5), shorewall6-proxyarp(5), shorewall6-rtrules(5),
+    shorewall6-routestopped(5), shorewall6-rules(5), shorewall6.conf(5),
+    shorewall6-secmarks(5), shorewall6-tcclasses(5), shorewall6-tcdevices(5),
+    shorewall6-tcrules(5), shorewall6-tos(5), shorewall6-tunnels(5),
+    shorewall6-zones(5)</para>
   </refsect1>
 </refentry>