diff --git a/src/towncrier/newsfragments/640.misc b/src/towncrier/newsfragments/640.misc
index 983a0cde..32f045c1 100644
--- a/src/towncrier/newsfragments/640.misc
+++ b/src/towncrier/newsfragments/640.misc
@@ -1,4 +1 @@
-Moved towncrier version definition from src/towncrier/_version.py to pyproject.toml
-
-towncrier.__version__ was removed, after being deprecated in 23.6.0.
 Use importlib.metadata to get the towncrier's version.
diff --git a/src/towncrier/newsfragments/640.removal b/src/towncrier/newsfragments/640.removal
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a5fb5b82
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/towncrier/newsfragments/640.removal
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Moved towncrier version definition from src/towncrier/_version.py to pyproject.toml
+
+towncrier.__version__ was removed, after being deprecated in 23.6.0.