diff --git a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-shell.xml b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-shell.xml
index 5c44c4a8f..3f12dda04 100644
--- a/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-shell.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/command-ref/nix-shell.xml
@@ -317,13 +317,14 @@ while (my $token = $p->get_tag("a")) {
 
 </para>
 
-<para>Finally, the following Haskell script uses a specific branch of
-Nixpkgs/NixOS (the 14.12 stable branch):
+<para>Finally, using the merging of multiple nix-shell shebangs the
+following Haskell script uses a specific branch of Nixpkgs/NixOS (the
+18.03 stable branch):
 
 <programlisting><![CDATA[
 #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell
 #! nix-shell -i runghc -p haskellPackages.ghc haskellPackages.HTTP haskellPackages.tagsoup
-#! nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-14.12.tar.gz
+#! nix-shell -I nixpkgs=https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs-channels/archive/nixos-18.03.tar.gz
 
 import Network.HTTP
 import Text.HTML.TagSoup