diff --git a/src/bootstrap/bin/rustdoc.rs b/src/bootstrap/bin/rustdoc.rs
index 04345867bf5c1..ba644e6111827 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/bin/rustdoc.rs
+++ b/src/bootstrap/bin/rustdoc.rs
@@ -52,12 +52,7 @@ fn main() {
     // Bootstrap's Cargo-command builder sets this variable to the current Rust version; let's pick
     // it up so we can make rustdoc print this into the docs
     if let Some(version) = env::var_os("RUSTDOC_CRATE_VERSION") {
-        // This "unstable-options" can be removed when `--crate-version` is stabilized
-        if !has_unstable {
-            cmd.arg("-Z").arg("unstable-options");
-        }
         cmd.arg("--crate-version").arg(version);
-        has_unstable = true;
     }
 
     // Needed to be able to run all rustdoc tests.
diff --git a/src/bootstrap/doc.rs b/src/bootstrap/doc.rs
index b0d9a5b94641c..04da3cc1015b8 100644
--- a/src/bootstrap/doc.rs
+++ b/src/bootstrap/doc.rs
@@ -313,6 +313,9 @@ impl Step for Standalone {
             }
 
             let mut cmd = builder.rustdoc_cmd(compiler);
+            // Needed for --index-page flag
+            cmd.arg("-Z").arg("unstable-options");
+
             cmd.arg("--html-after-content")
                 .arg(&footer)
                 .arg("--html-before-content")
@@ -395,7 +398,7 @@ impl Step for Std {
 
             // Keep a whitelist so we do not build internal stdlib crates, these will be
             // build by the rustc step later if enabled.
-            cargo.arg("-Z").arg("unstable-options").arg("-p").arg(package);
+            cargo.arg("-p").arg(package);
             // Create all crate output directories first to make sure rustdoc uses
             // relative links.
             // FIXME: Cargo should probably do this itself.
@@ -406,6 +409,8 @@ impl Step for Std {
                 .arg("rust.css")
                 .arg("--markdown-no-toc")
                 .arg("--generate-redirect-pages")
+                .arg("-Z")
+                .arg("unstable-options")
                 .arg("--resource-suffix")
                 .arg(crate::channel::CFG_RELEASE_NUM)
                 .arg("--index-page")
diff --git a/src/doc/rustdoc/src/command-line-arguments.md b/src/doc/rustdoc/src/command-line-arguments.md
index ddbe26389fdc8..31e002810ce4b 100644
--- a/src/doc/rustdoc/src/command-line-arguments.md
+++ b/src/doc/rustdoc/src/command-line-arguments.md
@@ -390,3 +390,15 @@ the same CSS rules as the official `light` theme.
 `--check-theme` is a separate mode in `rustdoc`. When `rustdoc` sees the
 `--check-theme` flag, it discards all other flags and only performs the CSS rule
 comparison operation.
+
+### `--crate-version`: control the crate version
+
+Using this flag looks like this:
+
+```bash
+$ rustdoc src/lib.rs --crate-version 1.3.37
+```
+
+When `rustdoc` receives this flag, it will print an extra "Version (version)" into the sidebar of
+the crate root's docs. You can use this flag to differentiate between different versions of your
+library's documentation.
diff --git a/src/doc/rustdoc/src/unstable-features.md b/src/doc/rustdoc/src/unstable-features.md
index f704fe8e099b8..84e1ebe5e01f5 100644
--- a/src/doc/rustdoc/src/unstable-features.md
+++ b/src/doc/rustdoc/src/unstable-features.md
@@ -248,18 +248,6 @@ Markdown file, the URL given to `--markdown-playground-url` will take precedence
 `--playground-url` and `#![doc(html_playground_url = "url")]` are present when rendering crate docs,
 the attribute will take precedence.
 
-### `--crate-version`: control the crate version
-
-Using this flag looks like this:
-
-```bash
-$ rustdoc src/lib.rs -Z unstable-options --crate-version 1.3.37
-```
-
-When `rustdoc` receives this flag, it will print an extra "Version (version)" into the sidebar of
-the crate root's docs. You can use this flag to differentiate between different versions of your
-library's documentation.
-
 ### `--sort-modules-by-appearance`: control how items on module pages are sorted
 
 Using this flag looks like this:
diff --git a/src/librustdoc/lib.rs b/src/librustdoc/lib.rs
index 3c1f0509bba4d..33cabad9193c4 100644
--- a/src/librustdoc/lib.rs
+++ b/src/librustdoc/lib.rs
@@ -267,7 +267,7 @@ fn opts() -> Vec<RustcOptGroup> {
         unstable("display-warnings", |o| {
             o.optflag("", "display-warnings", "to print code warnings when testing doc")
         }),
-        unstable("crate-version", |o| {
+        stable("crate-version", |o| {
             o.optopt("", "crate-version", "crate version to print into documentation", "VERSION")
         }),
         unstable("sort-modules-by-appearance", |o| {
diff --git a/src/test/rustdoc/crate-version.rs b/src/test/rustdoc/crate-version.rs
index 9ea84ac031211..893af5c61332d 100644
--- a/src/test/rustdoc/crate-version.rs
+++ b/src/test/rustdoc/crate-version.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-// compile-flags: --crate-version=1.3.37 -Z unstable-options
+// compile-flags: --crate-version=1.3.37
 
 // @has 'crate_version/index.html' '//div[@class="block version"]/p' 'Version 1.3.37'