diff --git a/doc/man/taskrc.5.in b/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
index dc7ec2562..b31f8f7a0 100644
--- a/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
+++ b/doc/man/taskrc.5.in
@@ -291,7 +291,7 @@ and the "nothing" setting is equivalent to none of the tokens being specified.
 Here are the shortcut equivalents:
 
     verbose=on
-    verbose=blank,header,footnote,label,new-id,new-uuid,affected,edit,special,project,sync,filter,unwait,override,recur
+    verbose=blank,header,footnote,label,new-id,affected,edit,special,project,sync,filter,unwait,override,recur
 
     verbose=0
     verbose=blank,label,new-id,edit
diff --git a/src/Context.cpp b/src/Context.cpp
index 338cee7df..6a7b39f3d 100644
--- a/src/Context.cpp
+++ b/src/Context.cpp
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ std::string configurationDefaults =
   "\n"
   "# Miscellaneous\n"
   "#                                              # Comma-separated list.  May contain any subset of:\n"
-  "verbose=blank,header,footnote,label,new-id,new-uuid,affected,edit,special,project,sync,filter,unwait,override,recur\n"
+  "verbose=blank,header,footnote,label,new-id,affected,edit,special,project,sync,filter,unwait,override,recur\n"
   "confirmation=1                                 # Confirmation on delete, big changes\n"
   "recurrence=1                                   # Enable recurrence\n"
   "recurrence.confirmation=prompt                 # Confirmation for propagating changes among recurring tasks (yes/no/prompt)\n"