diff --git a/components/phpunit_bridge.rst b/components/phpunit_bridge.rst
index 360fe6b1986..865a3875b7e 100644
--- a/components/phpunit_bridge.rst
+++ b/components/phpunit_bridge.rst
@@ -28,12 +28,19 @@ Installation
 
 .. code-block:: terminal
 
-    $ composer require --dev symfony/phpunit-bridge
+    $ composer require --dev "symfony/phpunit-bridge:*"
 
 Alternatively, you can clone the `<https://github.com/symfony/phpunit-bridge>`_ repository.
 
 .. include:: /components/require_autoload.rst.inc
 
+.. note::
+
+    The PHPUnit bridge is designed to work with all maintained versions of
+    Symfony components, even across different major versions of them. You should
+    always use its very latest stable major version to get the most accurate
+    deprecation report.
+
 If you plan to :ref:`write-assertions-about-deprecations` and use the regular
 PHPUnit script (not the modified PHPUnit script provided by Symfony), you have
 to register a new `test listener`_ called ``SymfonyTestsListener``: