diff --git a/src/doc/src/reference/build-script-examples.md b/src/doc/src/reference/build-script-examples.md
index 0db3bf7260c..bf49aeb1b74 100644
--- a/src/doc/src/reference/build-script-examples.md
+++ b/src/doc/src/reference/build-script-examples.md
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ Here we can see that we have a `build.rs` build script and our binary in
 [package]
 name = "hello-from-generated-code"
 version = "0.1.0"
+edition = "2021"
 ```
 
 Let’s see what’s inside the build script: