diff --git a/dist/changes-5.0.0 b/dist/changes-5.0.0
index 5987c95108a..3749f18d64b 100644
--- a/dist/changes-5.0.0
+++ b/dist/changes-5.0.0
@@ -60,6 +60,8 @@ information about a particular change.
   in Qt4, so these methods return a bool now. If your code used the undocumented
   QBool, simply replace it with bool.
 
+- The old macros TRUE and FALSE have been removed, use true and false instead.
+
 - qIsDetached<> has been removed without replacement.
 
 - The return type of QFlags<Enum>::operator int() now matches the Enum's underlying
diff --git a/src/corelib/global/qglobal.h b/src/corelib/global/qglobal.h
index 60b90dc70f9..6c2900e2150 100644
--- a/src/corelib/global/qglobal.h
+++ b/src/corelib/global/qglobal.h
@@ -436,17 +436,6 @@ typedef QIntegerForSizeof<void*>::Unsigned quintptr;
 typedef QIntegerForSizeof<void*>::Signed qptrdiff;
 typedef qptrdiff qintptr;
 
-/*
-   Constant bool values
-*/
-
-#ifndef QT_LINUXBASE /* the LSB defines TRUE and FALSE for us */
-#  ifndef TRUE
-#   define TRUE true
-#   define FALSE false
-#  endif
-#endif
-
 /* moc compats (signals/slots) */
 #ifndef QT_MOC_COMPAT
 #  define QT_MOC_COMPAT